My Spirit Burns Through This Body

"The next time my neck seizes and my muscles contract with a shocking violence, I allow it. For once, I can see the beauty in having flesh that is as loud as my spirit. It insists on care, it is just as stubborn as I am, just as brilliant, and I forgive it for being like this, disabled and furiously alive."

This short non-fiction shares Akwaeke Emezi's personal experiences around disability and existing in our harsh world. She shares a journey that is still on-going about how she is recognizing the pain & trauma her body has endured and how she reins in a mind that is burning hot and doesn't see the effects of the trauma until it is too late.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/12/10/my-spirit-burns-through-this-body/