These dating conversations never included or made mention of queer people, or the fact that most of us have tended to meet our partners, friends and side-pieces on social media even before the lockdowns, because this was oftentimes the only place we were able to express our full identities.

I was born in Jamaica to a Jamaican father and Trinidadian mother and have practised Islam all my 21 years of life and I would not have it any other way.

I often think about happiness as a home; the different rooms representing different parts of our life. A home is supposed to be your safe haven, to keep the things you love inside and the ones you don’t out.