Written by: Kihana Wilson
Edited by: Daniela Pereira, Kaitrin Freeland
Illustrated by: Satabdi Mohanty
The first question I ever thought to ask of the Universe was not how it came into being, not when it decided to be, nor even why it wanted to become. No, my questions were concerned with my own how, when, and why: ‘How did it come to be that I existed only in the liminal spaces?’ ‘Why was I relegated to them?’ and ‘When, if ever, could I escape into permanence and stability?’ In other words, my original motivations for studying the Universe were selfish. It seemed to me the source from which I could draw meaningful truths about my existence uncorrupted by mankind’s falsehoods it tried to project onto me.
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