The Hollow Half Quotes

“One way to tell the story of a life: list the order and number of ways you learned you were unsafe. For me, girl came first, then Palestinian. Woman and queer were tangled together, one overdetermined, the other gagged. Each one of these words a border, a frontier that told me: Lose yourself, or disappear.”
― Sarah Aziza, The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

“Asked again to peel back our scabs, to bare our festering places, hanging our heads over the blood. We were not asked who had cut us, or why the injuries went uncleaned.”
― Sarah Aziza, The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders