Jason Prokowiew's father was 10 in 1941, when the Nazis that invaded Belarus murdered his mother. How to get food and how to survive without it became a through line in his survival story. Now, with famine imminent in Gaza, Prokowiew is reminded that living without food is not something humans ought to know.
For decades, I avoided horror movies, writes Jason Prokowiew. Then, this past year, I watched 34 of them Freddy, Jason and MIchael Myers showed me, my home is now a safe space.
Jason Prokowiew grew up with a father whose love felt complicated, but when he married his husband, he gained a father who shows care unconditionally. He writes, it didn’t take me long to embrace what my father-in-law offered; in fact, I think I’d always wanted something like it, and when I found it, it felt like home.