‘The Hardest War’ - Is Now

We are at war, we are islands, and we have to start fighting it together

I open my emails. I cover my eyes, squinting, like I’m watching a horror film.

I have trained myself to scan the email name right to left - to determine if the name is pornographic or in any way offensive. If it is, I have trained myself not to look at the profile image, which is invariably designed to traumatize me.

I screenshot it, and upload into a d…