Coming From Where I Come From: An Outlet Journal

Coming From Where I Come From — we're taught to survive, not to speak. Pain is something we carry in silence, sometimes because there's no one around to listen, and other times because we don't even know where to begin. Many of us never had that one person — that safe place — to pour into. So we hold it all in. The trauma. The lessons. The tears we were told to swallow.

This journal was born out of that silence. It uses music — the one language that always understood us — to pull out the emo...