THE HEART OF DARKO
“OH DAMN,” says hip-hop artist and life coach Adam Darko with a heavy sigh when asked what the word “family” means to him. “If you asked me this a month ago, you wouldn’t get the same answer, a year ago, not the same answer—but now, family to me just means connection. Just, you know, unconditional love; people I can simply be with effortlessly. This is what I would define as family, right now, at this moment.”
Darko, a 24-year-old transgender man who migrated from Algeria to Malaysia, and has
