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Kwibuka26: Re-imagining Remembrance During COVID19

This April, Rwanda is observing the 26th commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. As the world is currently engulfed in the…

Apr 7, 2020

Kwibuka26: Re-imagining Remembrance During COVID19

Apr 7, 2020

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3 little poems

to people who live with chronic pain, i hope you find a gentle place to lean, as soft feel beneath your feet, and a steady landing when…

May 29, 2019

3 little poems

May 29, 2019

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Short story: Zulaykha ☘️

Her mother is a rather timid woman. From a small town, from a small family and with small dreams. Her house is always neat and her food is…

May 22, 2019

Short story: Zulaykha ☘️

May 22, 2019

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ode to Nitah

“Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a…

May 12, 2019

ode to Nitah

May 12, 2019

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On Mike Kayihura’s EP — Barely Mixed

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” ―Victor Hugo

May 4, 2019

On Mike Kayihura’s EP — Barely Mixed

May 4, 2019

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There Is No Way God Is a Woman🗣🗣

I grew up with a heavily internalized belief that the creator is a man. Even with the ‘god is genderless’ rhetoric, I started my prayers…

May 3, 2019

There Is No Way God Is a Woman🗣🗣

May 3, 2019

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Leaning into young adulthood

I couldn’t wait to grow up! I am here now and WHEW

May 2, 2019

Leaning into young adulthood

May 2, 2019

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“This thing we’re doing here, you, me. I’m in. I am all in.” — Luke Danes

Loving you is eerily like writing a book. I have tried so many times. You have won yourself a place in my mind, as epics and folklore, a…

Apr 21, 2019

Apr 21, 2019

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I don’t look away anymore

When I was a child, April terrified me. The wounds and memories of the genocide were relatively fresher, the loss and crippling pain was…

Apr 11, 2019

I don’t look away anymore

Apr 11, 2019

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Travel piece: Vancouver to LA. Part 1.

I am writing this on my flight from Vancouver to LA. The lights are off and everyone is drowsy. This seatbelt feels like a medieval corset…

Feb 14, 2019

Travel piece: Vancouver to LA. Part 1.

Feb 14, 2019

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S a m a n t h a

I am in a perpetual existential crisis. So I write from the mundane, from warmth, from empathy and mosty, from wonder.

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