Youth

youth, the ‘best days of your life’. but what if your youth was not sneaking out friendships school camps and parties. what if your youth was hospital waiting lists screaming matches over spaghetti serves child locks on car doors and being institutionalised for Christmases, birthdays, farewells and New Years.

Monique White

CW: mental health, eating disorder

what if your priorities were not accreditations casual work and relationships but rather what has the least grams of sugar the size of the gap between your thighs and body mass index. it feels painful to comprehend that time slows for no one, and i followed a different trajectory. and what if, i turned twenty, and still, never had a youth.

Twenty