Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/iyesatta-massaquoi-emeli/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:29:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Iyesatta Massaquoi Emeli, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/iyesatta-massaquoi-emeli/ 32 32 153713158 Unexpected Gratitude https://www.midnightandindigo.com/unexpected-gratitude/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:00:36 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=80575 It was the year Twitter launched, the Human Genome Project published the final chromosome sequence, and the FIFA World Cup competition saw Italy victorious. I was graduating from an Emergency Medicine residency program. My life was good; I had proclaimed as much during my graduation dinner. When it was my turn to give a speech—I was clad in a fitted bright cocktail dress— I asked, “Don’t I look fabulous?” I said these words to a roomful of colleagues with whom I had worked thirty-six-hour shifts, all of us garbed in loose scrubs held at the waist by a drawstring. We

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]]> 80575 Become https://www.midnightandindigo.com/become/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:00:34 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=79011 Musu sat on a big rock. A beige bar of caustic soap stood vertically on the pile of dirty laundry at her feet, calling to her. She was late getting to this river, and she would be late returning to her home. Her head was full of backwards sojourns, of futile attempts to reimagine a past already written in permanent marker. The sky was without clouds, a never-ending blue canvas that had the potential to soothe her scattered brain. There was a soft breeze, a natural fan for the sun’s heat. It was quiet where she sat. Clear water flowed

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