I was born a girl
“What I felt in my chest was so alien to me that I couldn’t explain it to my young self.”
10 min readJan 14, 2021
I woke up suddenly at the sound of yelling outside my window. There stood my grandmother with her red turban wrapped tightly around her head making her look fifty years older than she actually is. Old wrinkly skin with floppy arms that I can just imagine pulling down looking like an…