Zulaikha Mirzazadeh

The intimacy of ONE

By Zulaikha Mirzazadeh / Issue 34, Intimacy, Magazine / 12 minutes of reading

Intimacy throws up word pictures and connotations of something shared between two or more people. The oxford dictionary[1] tells us that in legal parlance, ‘intimacy’ is a euphemism for sexual intercourse. We may also speak of an intimate group of friends. Thus, intimacy seems tied to shared experiences among small numbers of people. After all,

The Aporia of Identities

In 2018, I was walking along Kurfürstendamm, West Berlin’s famed shopping district with a friend. We hadn’t seen each other in ages and so were giggling and talking animatedly, catching each other up on the events in our lives. My friend is 6 feet tall and was sporting a largish beard at the time. A