HeyJaredMATUNDA NISHOBORA
I Write about my health journey, relationships, migration and slow living. Thank you for considering this publication. Matunda N.
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Why our society is bankrupt for love (opens the original)
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I am currently in bed with a cold. My skin is paler, my breath heavy, and the circles around my eyes... well, let us just say I have never been this close to looking like a panda bear, and not at all in a cute way. But of course, I had to be confined to my bed in order to start writing again, because now I cannot escape my thoughts.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1cby!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-m
Being the perfect prey (opens the original)
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authoers note: While on holiday with my family and fiancé, I was confronted multiple times with the fear I have built up around human contact, particularly when it comes to meeting new people. This was also part of the theme in Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah, ae book I was reading early on our trip. Because so many other things were happening at the same time, I haven’t had a sit down with my thoughts around this: It has become rather evident to me that something has changed in the way I inte
The shield (opens the original)
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I’ve just come home from the city centre, where I experienced, for perhaps only the third time in my life that someone stood up for me while I was being treated poorly due to the colour of my skin. I know it was because of my skin colour; we always know. The look of hatred does not wear a veil. It is blunt, sometimes painfully so.I was in a queue, waiting to use the toilet. The woman in front of me was facing forward, but she suddenly turned around. Upon seeing me, she started hissing and shooin
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