Rejoice, for we have been blessed with another day in life! 

It has been about 14 months since I decided to completely shift and wholeheartedly embrace the life of working to live and not the other way around. Having already detailed my grim past as a corporate slave in my No Other Choice journal entry, I now wake up with a smile on my face and excitement for what is to come, without much pressure regarding work, performance, colleagues, or…

To live a double life is to exist in space between breaths, between thoughts, and in the case of Markopoulos’ Twice a Man, in between split-second shots. It’s an all too familiar feeling, universal to almost every queer person navigating life in half-hearted truths so much as it aches to be revealed. 

It started itself with darkness; a black screen that seemed to stretch endlessly, drowning in restless sounds of rain. A premonition of a turbulent journey, perhaps? But whatever it…