Hima Bindu Thota is a surgical resident at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and a recent graduate from Duke Divinity School.
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The Checkpoints
11-20-2025
A poem.
Illustration by Oliver Kugler
The empire asked for us to register our identity.
145 kilometers,
15 checkpoints.
Every blockade,
Joseph was stopped and frisked,
and I was undressed.