Nothing in the Way: A Memoir

Belonging is a performance before it is a fact.

I learned this on ships, in university corridors, in rooms that did not expect me. I learned to produce the right version of myself for every room - and I was good at it. By the time I finished my doctorate, I could not locate the line between who I was and who I had learned to be.

I tried to fill the gap with degrees, with traditions, with twenty minutes on a cushion every morning. None of it reached what needed reaching.

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