I travel extensively and often come across views I don’t hold, and I have to do my best to put myself in the shoes of others. But I found these statements from intelligent people who I liked very hard to stomach.

My projects often come from an experience or a view of an injustice, something that makes me angry. It became vital to me to tell these stories—the ones that had not yet been told.

I can’t express the misery some of these people have lived. Of course, I was lucky not to have to; they did that themselves.

For some, though, it was too much. Milli told me of the “corrective rape” she survived, but couldn’t bring herself to write about it.