At the end of the night,
I peel this country off my skin
I peel the other one too
I undress until I can call nothing but this body a home
I choose absence of I choose border less
I do not make boundaries of my being
I become porous
And always,
Always
Ready to welcome you back.
Daad Sharfi is a 23-year-old Sudanese woman who grew up in Muscat, Oman before moving to Chicago, IL. She recently graduated from Yale University where she studied Economics and Ethnicity, Race and Migration. As an Afro-Arab and American Black woman who calls multiple cities her home, Daad is interested in translation, identity-construction, migration and the African diaspora. She is currently serving as a fellow in the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs where she conducts research on socioeconomic disparities along racial lines and is also involved on an immigrant inclusion initiative in Pittsburgh.