Sagaree Jain is a Bay Area based poet, writer, and researcher, and visual artist. She grew up in the Silicon Valley and studied History at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the co-creator of the Turmeric Project, which spotlights queer South Asian art. Sagaree is fascinated by women, South Asia, poetry, scientific racism, reproductive justice, queer health, decolonization, migration, surveillance, on and on. She was a different person and a different gender when she wrote this piece, but she stands by it anyway. Her Twitter and Instagram handles are both @sagareejain.