During one of the great lockdowns of 2020, I finally convinced my mother to sit down after a long day…

Photograph by Margaux Chalancon i. We're picking out a name for you again. Shamsah, Badiʿat Al-Jameel, Ashaʿ, Siʿlat. We tussle…

  There's a blackhead on my chin. I probe it every morning. I poke; I prod; I nudge; it won't…