Breathing Space

The body my immigrant parents may never understand

Mary Anne Mohanraj
Gay Mag
Published in
7 min readApr 3, 2018

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TThe news broke with a phone call from England. A distant relative, calling my Sri Lankan American immigrant parents in Connecticut and asking them, “Do you know what your daughter is putting on the internet?”

They said, “What’s the internet?”

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Mary Anne Mohanraj
Gay Mag

Author of Bodies in Motion (Asian American Book Awards finalist), The Stars Change (Lambda finalist), and eleven other titles. Professor, gardener, cook, mom.