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OluTimehin Kukoyi

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Aug 17, 2020

We can be okay, even when things are not.

One of my neighbours drives the same type of car as my ex-girlfriend. It is a car that makes a distinctive sound, three beeps in rapid succession, every time it is locked. In our year together, I learned to associate this sound with her. …

Intimate Partner Abuse

11 min read

We can be okay, even when things are not.
We can be okay, even when things are not.
Intimate Partner Abuse

11 min read


Feb 22, 2020

A Bedtime Story for a Broken Heart

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named ****. Or there could have been a little boy named ****, but his mothers didn’t know how to hold each other. This little boy’s mothers loved each other very much, from a part of the heart so deep inside that…

Black Queer Love

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A Bedtime Story for a Broken Heart
A Bedtime Story for a Broken Heart
Black Queer Love

4 min read


Dec 24, 2019

Who is a real woman?

If you’re invested in dictionary definitions, the gender binary and a social order regulated by violence, this isn’t for you. Last weekend, a very famous author posted a tweet in support of a woman who’d lost a court case in which she attempted to get legal backing for her transmisogyny…

Feminism

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Who is a real woman?
Who is a real woman?
Feminism

5 min read


Dec 11, 2018

#WhoWillYouHelp

I was on Twitter this morning when I stumbled on this video made by the Government of Ontario about the need for bystander intervention in instances of sexual violation. It made my heart stop. It almost made me cry. (It didn’t. Maybe that’s because I’m very, very tired of crying.)

Sexual Assault

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#WhoWillYouHelp
#WhoWillYouHelp
Sexual Assault

6 min read


Jul 20, 2018

There they are, those girls.

2009 In my first year of university, I was generally naked or close to it in my dorm room, even though the windows didn’t have any curtains. My building was on a slight rise so no one outside could see in, and my roommates were almost always away. Mostly, I spent…

Queer

11 min read

There they are, those girls.
There they are, those girls.
Queer

11 min read


May 11, 2018

Versus

So. In the fight to reclaim my body To redraw boundaries blithely bounded over (a body is a body, but a body can be burgled, broken and entered by men who pass by mirrors and have no reflection men who piss on the world and call it rain men who…

Poetry

2 min read

Versus
Versus
Poetry

2 min read


Apr 9, 2018

Happy Birthday, Favour.

Tina Houngbo is a pleasant, mild-mannered mother of five children. Laughing self-consciously, she says she isn’t quite sure how old she is because none of her mother’s children were registered at birth or went to school. …

Otodo Gbame

6 min read

Happy Birthday, Favour.
Happy Birthday, Favour.
Otodo Gbame

6 min read


Mar 7, 2018

A Letter To My Teenage Self

I wrote this piece around this time two years ago. I come back to it — usually unintentionally — about twice a year, and it always feels like a long hug from me to me. I hope it feels at least a little bit like that for you too. The…

Letter To Myself

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A Letter To My Teenage Self
A Letter To My Teenage Self
Letter To Myself

3 min read


Jan 28, 2018

Cusp

“I‘m really just a good girl flirting with the dark side. I like how you shock me, how the undertones in your voice stir me, how laughing at what you say feels like I’m letting you touch me in ways that would first worry, then thrill me… I like how…

Erotica

2 min read

Cusp
Cusp
Erotica

2 min read


Dec 23, 2017

Remember Obiamaka

Obiamaka Orakwue was 14 years old on the night of July 10th when she left her brothers watching TV in the living room of her parents’ home and went to bed. For most fourteen-year-olds, the world is just starting to take shape. They are in the beginning of the questioning…

Obiamaka Orakwue

6 min read

Remember Obiamaka
Remember Obiamaka
Obiamaka Orakwue

6 min read

OluTimehin Kukoyi

OluTimehin Kukoyi

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Writer. Queer. Feminist. Yoruba. Mama of one precocious child. olukukoyi.com

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