#adult qai

[chronicallyqueer-afterdark]

Attention Whore

Term Flag

AND Adjacent Terms

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(Coined for those with cluster b disorders in mind. Anypony may use this, however!)

Attention Whore (and symbol! Can be used as a term umbrella system, if one so chooses!)

Attention Whore - This term may be for one who is reclaiming what people have called them , one who identifies as an attention whore , one who is attention seeking and often a "whore," or whatever it may mean for the user !

a label/term intended to reclaim the derogatory phrase "Attention Whore," in a more positive/powerful manner!

May be related to HPD/Cluster B but does not have to be.

RECLAIMED TERM!!

Attentionwhoregender, Attentionwhoresexual, Attentionwhorefucker

attentionwhoregender;;;; This gender may be for one who is reclaiming what people have called them and feels it is integral to one's gender , one who identifies as an attention whore and feels it intertwines with one's gender , one who is attention seeking and genderwhore, or whatever it may mean for the user !

attentionwhoresexual;;;; This orientation is for one who is attracted to attention whores , one whose sexuality is related to them being an attention whore , their sexuality is best described by being an attention whore, or whatever it may mean for the user !

attentionwhorefucker;;;; This label is for one who fucks attention whores , or whatever it may mean for the user !

Dm to be added/removed from my taglist!!!;;;

@archiveafterdark @liom-archive @mmogaiafterdark @mogaigonewild @neopornouns @tenting-archive

Symbol below cut

WhoreSymbol

(Plain version, colored version)

Heart with a heartbeat inside of it, and the heartbeat contains a W!

Ps: i have HPD, so this is not me stereotyping people!

[paging-possum]

Like it’s soooo easy to fall into despair and just assume something is fundamentally wrong and idk man sometimes you are just working with different pieces than everyone else and it sucks! But also sometimes you have to grit your teeth and figure out what the root of the problem is and what you yourself can do to improve it and it’s also going to be soooo easy to think of the solutions as big and daunting and impossible which is why you have to break it down AGAIN and figure out the smallest and most tangible ways to work towards it possible. Like who gives a fuck if your goal is just text one person a day that’s still SOMETHING, and if you keep doing it then maybe someday it won’t be as scary!! Maybe it’s writing for five minutes a day or maybe you start by asking people if they want to hang out and study for an afternoon or maybe you try eating an extra piece of fruit every few days i don’t freaking know but sometimes it really is just about doing something small and manageable over nothing at all and letting it build up. Idk. I’m just some guy who tries to talk in a discord server every day

[transmascutena]

utena is the most accurate depiction of what it was like for me to grow up trying to figure out my identity as a genderqueer lesbian i've ever seen and on one hand i wish i had watched the show sooner because i really think it could have helped me figure out a lot of stuff about myself and the world. but on the other i think i should be very grateful that it only happened once my good taste and media literacy had developed a bit. not that i think i was like. stupid as a teenager any more than everybody kind of is but. i'm not sure i would have appreciated it as much as i do now

[kennedy-coining]

WELCOME

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Hi! this is a "mogai after dark" coining blog, we are Sanguinary Freaks Massacre you can call us Gore or Visceral, we use any pronouns (and neos) but prefer shi/hir. Our collective gender is transmascfem and intersex. We are 22 years old and are a C-DID system of a lot.

We are matching with our love @serra-coining <3

We will make flags and userboxes ( and maybe ID packs )

Atypical Dysphoria community

Do not interact

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Basic DNI criteria (homophobic, transphobic, racist, etc)

Minors

Transmeds, radqueers, etc, etc

SH, ED or gore blogs

Pro endos, tulpas, endos or any kind of non traumagenic system and their supporters

Pro/comshippers and shipcourse in general

Sexualize age or pet regression

Anti-xenogenders, anti-neopronouns, anti-therian, anti-otherkin

TranslD, or supports TranslD, TransRAMCOA, etc.

Syscourse blogs

Belive in cluster b abuse or any disordered abuse

Pro-contact / anti-recovery paraphilias

Anti good faith identities /"contradictory" labels, including mspec lesbians / gays

Zionist, pro-lsrael, or "neutral" in the Palestinian genocide

What we will coin

Horror genre

NSFW

Gore

Substances (alcohol, etc)

Trauma survival / traumatic events

Paraphilia related stuff

And other possibly triggering topics

[trans--courier]

the courier has delivered . . . !

the courier has delivered . . . !

courierqueer

courierqueer

A blankqueer stance based off (my personal interpretation of) the protagonist of Fallout: New Vegas.

Courierqueer is pro:

Good faith identities (including mspec mono, MOGAI/LIOM/QAI, transID & all system origins and types)

Anarchy, communism & community

Paraphilias, fetishes & RACK (risk-aware consensual kink)- yes even the "bad" ones- & harmless contact

Doing what you think is right or best for yourself even if the people around you might disagree

Violent opposition and protest to bigotry or systematic abuse (strangers on the internet are not systematically abusing minorities 💔 we have to [redacted] the president)

Being a nosey bitch & helping others where you can

Killing & maiming actual fascists & capitalists

Personal autonomy & the right to self determination

Horrific asocial friend groups of freaks (ZERO RIZZ)

Courierqueer is anti:

Abuse of any flavor (CNC and BDSM relationships are not inherently abusive, & adult/minor human/animal sexual relationships always are ❤)

MIK or minors engaging sexually in adult spaces

Bigotry of any kind

Harassing online strangers

Singular authority or any hierarchy

If it's not listed it's not relevant to the stance, probably.

"Now that's a delivery service you can count on."

"Now that's a delivery service you can count on."

[forget-meabh-not]

TEXT VERSION OF DNI!!

NOTE: Proshippers can interact w actually cant muster enough energy to care abt that/check. Does not mean we proship !!

NO NOT INTERACT/DNF

Bigot in anyway

Bodily 13 or under

Bodily 19+(this only applies to dm's)

Anti Endo

Pro Isreal

Queer Exclusionist

Truscum/Transmed

TERF/SWERF/Radfem

Transandrophobia denier

Fatphobic

Ableist

MAP/NoMAP/P.E.A.R./pedo

Self ID as "Antiship"

Pro Harassment

Pro forced recovery

Believe in PD abuse

Infantilize those with Intellectual Disability

Anti QAI/LIOM

Dark/Compship(aka ship Incest, Child x Adult, Animal x Human etc)

Ship real people

Use slurs u cant reclaim( including those who are neurodivergent but not able to say R slur but still do and try and excuse it )

Anti-Nonhuman/Alterhuman

Post any super duper fetish related or super duper nsfw related content

Against Multispec labels

Against Lesboys/Turigirls

TransID/TransX

Pro harmful para

Radqueer

All Lives Matter or are against BLM

Pro Cop/Anti ACAB

Believe in reverse oppression( Reverse racism/blackwashing, cisphobia/misia, heterophobia/misia )

:DDD

[mqchive]

Welcome to the side blog of archiving everything mogai/qai. We highly recommend adding us to one's tag list.

We will state this, archiving ≠ endorsement. If you believe it is. Then you can freely block. There are terms that even we may not agree with but that doesn't mean it can't be archived. Everything deserves to be archived. Even if it may be bad. No one wants anything to get lost to history.

We do have a tagging system! Though it's an emoji code simply to help make things easier for us to archive. Less tedious work.

This archive has no dni as we believe archiving should not have a dni at all. We are here to archive. Not start discourse.

Keep in mind this tag system may have more emojis added. I will say that for the future block the respective tags if needed. We may reblog from after dark blogs. And with that. We are to say that we are bodily an adult. We won't say more.

Tags;

🌱 - Gender 🏵 - Orientation 🐾 - Nonhuman/alterhuman 👤 - Identity 👑 - Presentation 🗝 - Transid/permaid 📚 - Disability/neuro 🌐 - Plurality 🥀 - After dark

[tx-828]

oc reference list (non-clones)

why. is it so hard to write down the things i know about them. anybody else just have a vague feeling of a character’s personality along with an incapability to translate it into character traits. i’m dying

hurst (human, they/them/theirs)

ran away from home and joined a crew of salvagers so they could see the galaxy

qai’zel kirosi (wroonian, she/her/hers)

a salvager/pilot who owns her own ship. she and fitz are inseparable besties

fitz (harch, she/her/hers)

a cheerful person who’s good at lifting scrap and making people feel at ease. has a lot of hobbies like knitting and making dolls, and loves to explain and teach people her crafts. made her living as a conwoman before she became a spacer

welso tebb (human/zabrak, he/him/his)

used to be a salvager with qai, fitz, and hurst but moved to coruscant in the past couple years. he likes to keep busy and meet new people so he has a lot of part time jobs, mostly serving in restaurants. (he ended up employed as a lounge singer at one place but he doesn’t tell his friends bc he thinks it’s embarrassing)

hurst loves him even though they didn’t spend much time together and gets excited to go back to coruscant and see him

reza kirosi (wroonian, he/him/his)

qai’zel’s brother. they’re from a working family but reza has made himself rich as a “businessman”. he’s made a lot of important connections but is definitely in deeper with his business partners than he likes to think

has a biiig crush on welso. he watches this guy wipe down tables in coruscant’s greasiest diner like “pleeease let me wrap you in the finest silks”

solace (human, she/her/hers)

a skilled slicer who sometimes works for reza. she became roommates with welso after reza introduced them

amisen (mikkian, he/him/his)

hurst’s childhood friend and their bodyguard before hurst ran away. they dated in secret as young adults up until then.

trinne (human & 1/4 twi’lek, she/her/hers)

grew up with hurst since infancy and was made hurst’s chief attendant when they grew up. kind of pushed into the role of the responsible one once hurst got fed up and started to rebel

etikka (human/twi’lek hybrid, she/her/hers)

trinne’s mother and hurst’s gestational carrier. she was peltra’s friend and attendant before she resigned to have her first baby. she ended up living in the palace again when peltra asked her to carry hurst. trinne and hurst were raised together by etikka during their early years 

elian (human, she/her/hers)

she was the allstar of the royal guard training program and became hurst’s chief bodyguard. she took amisen under her wing bc she thinks he’s cute like a puppy. she’s gay and likes teasing trinne

peltra (human, she/her/hers)

hurst’s mother, a space princess. expected hurst to be exactly like her and could not fathom that her child couldn’t meet expectations due to mental illness

ilne (human, he/him/his)

peltra’s ex and hurst’s bio father. peltra’s punishment for being so shitty to him was that their kid inherited everything that annoyed her about him

anais kort (devaronian, she/her/hers)

you know anais right. a young adult jedi with powers strongly tied to the emotional states of others. she was drafted to lead a battalion partway through the war. she and finn ertay were in love as teens and separated themselves to avoid becoming overly attached

greeley (unknown species, xe/xir/xirs)

anais’s mentor, a jedi who worked in secret intelligence during the war

irrah (mirialan, she/her/hers)

greeley’s padawan before anais. she completed her knighthood trials but joined the educorps to help serve remote communities

mohlo (nautolan, she/her/hers)

a teen who was one of a group irrah rescued from a sweatshop. mohlo had no family to be reunited with so irrah decided to take care of her

thimri (tholothian, he/him/his)

childhood friend of anais and finn who became a jedi healer

[rainbowywitch]

Hello,🖐️

I hope you are well 🌷.

I am reaching out with a heartfelt request for your support in a critical fundraising campaign that could change our lives. We have launched a GoFundMe❤️ campaign to gather the necessary funds to save my family and enable us to travel✈️ to Egypt. We are in urgent need of these resources to relocate and live safely.

Any donation🙏🏼, no matter how small, will have a profound impact and bring us closer to achieving this dream.

If you are unable to donate, please help us by sharing the campaign with your friends and family to expand our support network.

Can you my pinned Post? On my account 😞

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your time and consideration. Your support means the world to us. 🙏❤️

Best regards,

Hello, my name is Waseem Abusafi. I am 34 years old and live in Gaza. I am a dedicated father to a beautiful 3-year-old child named Qais. My wife, Amal Nabeel, is 27 years old. Our family has poured our hearts and souls into building a better future for ourselves and our community. I have worked in accounting and managed accounts for several companies in Gaza City. But tragedy struck when the war began. The recent conflict and damage to our residential area and infrastructure left us not only homeless and without means to support ourselves but also took the lives of my great-aunt and great-uncle, their spouses, their children, and their innocent grandchildren in an airstrike. It is a loss no family should have to endure. While we were forced to evacuate Gaza City, our family found itself torn apart in a desperate search for safety. We have been forced to relocate multiple times, hoping to find refuge from the violence each time. Our hearts are broken with grief, and we have witnessed death firsthand and endured unimaginable loss. Now, with our world turned upside down, we are clinging tightly to what little remains, determined to protect our child from further harm. We humbly ask for your support to help us evacuate to safety in Egypt and rebuild a better life in the aftermath of this devastating tragedy. Please note that travel costs to Egypt are very high, and coordinating entry through the border is $5000 per adult and $2500 per child. We cannot afford these exorbitant amounts. Every contribution, no matter how large or small, will make a significant difference in helping us overcome this crisis and start anew. We will never forget your kindness and compassion during this difficult time.

[enderon]

Some older civilian, brought into the Hub for a case: You know Mr.Jones, so many young people these days are so emotionally and mentally fragile that they can hardly function as adults that it's a delight to meet young men such as yourself who are so mature and well-adjusted.

Ianto: *Thinking about how, instead of seeking help for the trauma he gained from Canary Wharf, he hid his half-converted girlfriend for months, not asking any of the qualified people he works with for help, getting two civilians killed in the process, and then proceeded to spend the next several weeks regularly getting drunk at a local pub while venting to a barmaid who secretly wanted to sell him to alien slavery, rather than talking to a professional or any of his coworkers, and how in general his immediate response to feeling insecure or uneasy is to be sarcastic or passive-aggressive and how he mostly uses his neat suits and butler-like mannerisms as a shallow front to hide his deep rooted insecurities and traumas*

Ianto: ....

Ianto: Thank you, I'm glad I could help restore your faith in the new generation.

[kawaguardian-blog]

If my dad could just stop...

Telling me I should join the navy/air force as a stationed counsellor/therapist so that I can get free education and support, that would be great. Thanks.

[princejackal]

Awakened Powers

Author's Note: This is a side story about the MC who is about seven years old, and how they awakened their powers.

Finally...

With your hand still throbbing in pain, you drop your quill pen and place the soft clay tablet back in your tutor’s teaching chest.

“Don’t forget tomorrow you’ll be refining your flowing curves again. I expect you to be able to write two thousand words this time around,” your tutor, Ibn Awn, says.

You nod away whilst walking far from your tutor.

“I expect a clear ‘yes tutor’, not a nod!” your tutor reprimands you.

You stop walking. You turn around and look your calligraphy tutor in the eyes. “Yes, Tutor.”

“Good,” he nods. “Make sure you fix that attitude of yours by tomorrow. Or else the sultan will hear of this.”

You take a deep breath to calm yourself.

“You’re such a big-nosed donkey,” you hiss quietly.

“Mhm?” your tutor stares at you confused. “Did you say something?”

“Oh. I was just saying I’m going to do better from now on.”

He grins, “Excellent. Even though you’re royalty, you must work harder than the rest of the rubble. And under my tutelage, I’ll make a good scholar out of you.”

You nod whilst biting your tongue. He dismisses you and you can leave without any more hassle.

You drag yourself far away from that tree you’ve spent hours doing pointless calligraphy.

You walk aimlessly around the harem. Your hand is still warm from the session of endless writing you had with your tutor.

Your guards follow behind without saying a word.

If only you had something fun to do. The only thing of interest you do day after day is being tutored. Everything must be done according to the schedule drafted by that bald chief eunuch.

You see nearby a swing attached to a branch of a tree.

You sit on it and swing yourself back and forth whilst watching the people in the harem go about their business.

“Don’t swing yourself too hard, Your Highness,” Captain Qais cautions.

“I have nothing to do and I’m bored,” you respond.

“It’s not safe. You could fall over and break a bone.”

“I won’t swing myself too high.”

The captain stares at you. You know the stare quite well. It’s the look of someone who has been given the authority to tell you no.

“Fine,” you groan. “I might as well die from boredom.”

“You can have fun in other ways.”

“Such as?”

“Do what other seven year olds do at your age…”

“Such as?” you repeat.

He doesn’t respond.

You decide to get off the swing and take a walk around.

The royal harem is large. Who knows what’s happening around here. There could be a puppet show you can watch. Or performers could be singing and dancing in the square right now.

Then again, you can spend time walking. There are trees with colourful birds to stare at. The many ponds have large fish to watch.

Not too exciting, but better than doing a lesson.

“I FOUND YOU!” you hear a familiar voice that’s not welcome.

“I was about to…” you try saying to the chief eunuch.

“Stop whatever you’re doing, Your Highness. You have horse riding lessons right now. Come come, time is of the essence.

“But I just got off calligraphy lessons.”

“Tsk,” he clicks his tongue. Laziness is not an excuse.”

“I’m not being lazy, I want time to have fun for once.”

“You’ll have fun when you’re an adult after you’re done with your education.”

“I’m not going anywhere.”

“I wasn’t asking you, Your Highness.”

You cross your arms in protest.

The chief eunuch gestures to your guards. “Grab [him/her].”

This is unfair. You’re expected to always be working.

“I’m not going anywhere!” you shout out loud.

[Primary Fire Magic Appears]:

You smell something burning. It’s close by and so you turn to see where it’s coming from.

“Your Highness, you’re on fire!”

Your hands are alight. You don’t feel pain, however.

Before you know it, the captain has thrown his cape around you. The fire is suffocated and disappears from you.

[Primary Water Magic Appears]:

Your feet suddenly feel cold and wet. You look down and see a pool of water has suddenly appeared around you. It swirls round and round.

The captain picks you up with haste and places you away from the water.

[Primary Earth Magic Appears]:

The ground around you trembles. You look down to see cracks forming. The ground snaps and breaks as the cracks grow larger.

The captains takes you away from these forming cracks.

[Primary Wind Magic Appears]:

A thin wind tunnel forms before your eyes. It’s thin and spins rapidly around itself. And as time goes on, the wind tunnel becomes larger and the winds around it become stronger.

The captain takes immediate action and moves you away from the wind. It quickly disappears.

***********

Captain Qais looks proudly at you.

“Your magic has finally awakened!” he grins at you.

“Does that mean I can start doing magic practises?”

“Of course. Maybe then you’ll stop complaining about being bored all the time.”

Your father is going to be proud. You can’t wait to show him.

The chief eunuch walks towards you and looks sternly, “Do it again.”

“What?” you say confused.

“Show me your magic. If you’re really awakened, then you should be able to do it again.”

Captain Qais stands up for you, “I think that’s unnecessary.”

“I don’t care what you think is necessary or not,” the chief eunuch remarks harshly. “What matters is informing the sultan with information that is proven more than once. Your Highness, show us your magic once again.”

You close your eyes. Your heart is beating faster.

You know it couldn’t be a fluke. You must show everyone that your powers really have awakened.

You then feel something rise inside you. Is this your magic wanting to come out?

You extend your arm forth and open your eyes.

[UNEXPECTED SECONDARY FIRE MAGIC]:

Fire comes out of your hands instead.

[UNEXPECTED SECONDARY WATER MAGIC]:

A bubble of waters appears on your hand.

[UNEXPECTED SECONDARY WIND MAGIC]:

A ripple of wind swirls around your hands.

[UNEXPECTED SECONDARY EARTH MAGIC]:

A couple of rock nearby float above your hand.

*******

Chief Eunuch Subhi is speechless.

Your guards and the captain have their mouths wide open in shock.

You too are unsure how to feel about what just happen. Even though it feels like a dream, you just produced a different element from the first.

“How is that possible?” the chief eunuch is bewildered.

[Primary & Secondary Magic Burst From Both Hands]

Suddenly both elements come out of your hands. Magic is flowing out of you without your will.

“Do something!” you say to the guards.

Captain Qais's hands glow with a hue of gold. He then taps you on the back of the neck. You go limp and he catches your fall.

You stop yourself from passing out through sheer will.

Any amount of magic still in your body has been sealed by Captain Qais. At least for now.

“Well, well,” chuckles Chief Eunuch Subhi. “You’re quite unusual. Two elements, quite unheard of."

The chief eunuch then glares at your guards, "None shall speak of this until the sultan has been informed.”

Everyone nods. There is no one else around the area who was paying attention to you.

Captain Qais places you on his shoulder. You’re carried to the chambers of the sultan.

You’re not certain how your father will react to the revelation that you can seemingly wield two elements…

[bi-demon-ium]

no but that's deeply sad!

snippet of the pokémon au i’ll never fucking write

Keep reading

[m-grouped]

BYF I support neopronouns (emoji, noun, xeno, etc), xenogenders, endogenic systems, mogai genders + orientations, mspec lesbians / vincians, mad pride, lesboys / turigirls, radical inclusionism, and basically any and all things under the liomogai / qai umbrellas.

BYF I am an adult, multigenic, KFF and a therian, comship neutral, pro-tagging, and neurodivergent

You do not need to agree with me but if this makes you uncomfortable feel free to leave now.

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What I will do:

• Term coining ───── [ open ]

• Flag coining ───── [ open ]

• Pronoun lists ──── [closed]

[daily-klingon]

Fingers and Toes

This is something I have wanted to post for some time. I’ll post something about the parts of the hands and legs for next week.

Source: Klingon for The Galactic Traveler.

rIl use the thumb (child) (v) Sen use the thumb (adult) (v) SIq use the index finger (v) qay use the second / middle finger (v) qew use the ring / third finger (v) qan use the pinky / little finger (v)

mar use the big toe (v) Hom use the second toe (v) roS use the third toe (v) nan use the fourth toe (v) Qay' use the little toe (v)

nItlh finger (n) rIlwI' thumb (child) (n) SenwI' thumb (adult) (n) SIqwI' index finger (n) qaywI' second / middle finger (n) qewwI' ring / third finger (n) qanwI' pinky / little finger (n)

yaD toe (n) marwI' big toe (n) HomwI' second toe (n) roSwI' third toe (n) nanwI' fourth toe (n) Qay'wI' little toe (n)

[chthonic-cassandra]

For @di-goldene-oygn and anyone else who would like it, have my trauma memoir reader. 

This is a long list, but it is whittled down from the ~250 trauma memoirs I have apparently read, so there are many, many things I did not include. I’ve organized loosely by what type of trauma is the focus of the narrative but this is an imperfect categorization system.

Memoirs of childhood abuse: The Tricky Part - Martin Moran Tiger, Tiger - Margaux Fragoso Where I Stopped - Martha Ramsey I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou That Mean Old Yesterday - Stacey Patton Excavation - Wendy Ortiz Skin and Two or Three Things I Know for Sure - Dorothy Allison Goja - Suniti Namjoshi Educated - Tara Westover A Shining Affliction - Annie G. Rogers Heavy - Kiese Laymon The Sound of Gravel - Ruth Wariner Man Alive - Thomas Page McBee The Book of Emma Reyes - Emma Reyes Bad Indians - Deborah A. Miranda The Incest Diary - Anonymous Denial - Jessica Stern Pulling the Chariot of the Sun - Shane McCrae Consent - Vanessa Springora Sex Cult Nun - Faith Jones

Memoirs of adult sexual assault and intimate partner violence: The Other Side - Lacy Johnson Days of a Russian Noblewoman (1758-1821) - Anna Labzina After Silence - Nancy Venable Raine Aftermath - Susan Brison Lucky - Alice Sebold In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption - Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton When I Hit You; Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife - Meena Kandasamy A History of Violence - Édouard Louis On Being Raped - Raymond Douglas South of Forgiveness - Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger Know My Name - Chanel Miller

Memoirs of abduction and captivity: Finding Me - Michelle Knight Hope - Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard 3,096 Days in Captivity - Natascha Kampusch

Memoirs of genocide: At the Mind’s Limits - Jean Améry If This Is a Man, The Reawakening, The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi And I Am Afraid of My Dreams - Wanda Poltawska Auschwitz and After - Charlotte Delbo First They Killed My Father - Loung Ung Cockroaches - Scholastique Mukasonga The Last Girl - Nadia Murad Tears of the Desert - Halima Bashir

Memoirs of political violence (torture, detention, exile) and war: Guatánamo Diary - Mohamedou Ould Slahi Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guatánamo - Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir Journal of an Ordinary Grief - Mahmoud Darwish A Woman in Berlin - Anonymous A Fort of Nine Towers - Qais Akbar Omar Daring to Drive - Manal Al-Sharif A Long Way Gone - Ismael Beah The Blindfold’s Eyes - Dianna Ortiz Asylum Denied - David Ngaruri Kenney Consequence - Eric Fair The Question - Henri Alleg The Little School - Alicia Partnoy Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number - Jacobo Timerman The Latehomecomer - Kao Kalia Yang

Memoirs of slavery and trafficking: The Interesting Narrative of Olaudo Equiano Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northrup Slave - Mende Nazer Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs My Life Has a Price - Tina Okpara Barracoon - Cudjo Lewis, transcribed by Zora Neale Hurston

Memoirs of gun violence and/or traumatic grief: Men We Reaped - Jesmyn Ward The Return - Hisham Matar Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me - Jerry McGill