Claire-Selma Aïtout creates and writes podcasts and poetry. Their work focuses primarily on science communication, mental health, and migration.
Claire-Selma Aïtout never learned to speak Kabyle, their father’s language. While all languages can be languages of love, theirs is built instead through the fragments of a mythology made of absences and tales in which the living and the dead coexist.
A comet is about to streak across the sky, and we’re supposed to follow it. Named Lady Lazarus, it draws near, promising to free us from the routine— from the subway, from the supermarket. The comet passes, yet we stay behind. From now on we must continue living…