Browsing: Perspective

Yet, the Canvas app, university apps or photos of one’s student ID card remains to be an insufficient form of proof despite still being evidence that a commuter is indeed a student.

Consequently, the pill has provided me with a sense of agency and independence which would simply not exist if I continued to struggle with debilitatingly heavy periods and painful cystic acne each month. So why now, at 21, do I feel that being taken away from me?

In 2012, both Popo and I joined Facebook. It soon became our main way to connect. The posts on my wall were frequent and the messages seemingly unending, but what I valued the most were the mundane posts that Popo would share that felt intimate and personal.