Chile… I go whole decades like this. I don’t lose friends though… even when they don’t know what landmass I am on at any given moment. True story: I have a friend for 42 years (that I actually remember), 44 years since we’ve met. We lived across the street from each...
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While #MeToo rages righteously, and #LifeInLeggings got itself sold off for awards and the dance with the devil in the pale moonlight, let us take a moment to remember. Tori Amos’ “Me And A Gun” is one of the most haunting pieces of my soundtrack. It was one of the...
My mother’s ex-boyfriend called me a little while ago, and gave me the ‘no drugs’ speech. Him (heavy Zimbabwean accent): If anybody tries to tempt you, think of me and say no. Just say no. Me: I think it’s the cutest thing you’re giving me this speech at 44. I’ve never even been slightly...
One of the smartest commentaries I’ve viewed so far… I support Kaepernick’s initial choice to kneel. How could I not? I never knew his name before, and think very...
My favourite box (they’re all my favourite box, cause I have a thing for boxes) and my favourite tin (which counts as a box, so they’re all my favourite tins) and my...
I have found myself in situations with women ten or fifteen years younger than me, who defended their lack of self care and penis adjacent behaviour and pandering with...
The fear of female power rears it’s ugly, ugly head. “Every creature of the Creative phenomenon/force/energy that we call Oludumare [God] possesses one...
Oshun Iyabeji Say: Children of activists come to despise The Movement because the model of revolution borne from the minds of men is linear, left-brained, male-centric...
Today Facebook showed me (in my memories) this photo taken in 2002, when I was An Associate Editor at The Wire newspaper. I had attended as ‘media presence’...
Thou art wholly missed… #ThePurpleOne #TheBeautifulOnes #prince
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