Making Waves Avignon #1 - Je cherche le fil de mon nombril أبحثُ عن حبلِ سرّتي (Nizar Qabbani)

  • By the youth
  • Making Waves Avignon

We are born in the hollow of a language, in the echo of silence, in the scent of home. The family imposes itself, alternately as a refuge or a debt, a woven fiction or an invisible boundary. There we learn roles, loyalties, and sometimes, in a breath, the delicate art of breaking free from them. But what does it mean to “make a family” when the impetus is choice, not inheritance?

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