This 🧵 is about one of my oldest friends, who I've admired for literal decades, and who is Sudanese.

I met her in Cairo, a million years ago when I was desperate to *not* live in Brooklyn and the Arab world felt like a revelation... This girl and I met when we were at the same college, both Black women who wore silk scarves - but not over our hair 😉

We became friends and she kind of "adopted" me. Although she lived with her family in her 20s and I lived on my own and ran around with all kinds of people 🥴