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I’m a blanket (opens the original)
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A few months ago, I wrote that I was a blanket in one of my newsletters. I read that newsletter again recently and realized I had more to say about it. When I first started thinking about this, I felt bitter in some stretches. I might sound bitter in this essay too. I might be sweet in some sections. Who knows. Either way, thinking about it now, a blanket is not a bad thing. In fact, it is an incredible thing. A good blanket can change your life. People love their blankets. They get attached to
friends to lovers (opens the original)
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I think my favorite type of love story is the type where the couple that cant tell you where they met. I like it because it just feels like they just sublimated into each others lives. It is like you ask them, and you see them looking into each other’s eyes trying to dig out the earliest memories they can from each other’s brains.Maybe he starts telling a story, and she corrects the day, or the date and they might argue if it was at a naming ceremony or after school. Then the remember Olawale fr
dear men, (opens the original)
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i remember a conversation i had with a friend about how misogynistic men were female centered men and she refused to see where i was coming from. or maybe it did not make sense in her outlook on life. i reckon that if you come online all day to talk about women, you probably are female centered, and i really hope you can decenter women going forward. i do want to be careful with this one because this idea of decentering has been ruined twice.it has been ruined once by the version aimed at women,
I want to crash out (opens the original)
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Permission to crash out. One, two, three.Permission granted.On Tuesday I started a new class at my internship, it’s product development, and I have known the facilitator of this class for a few months now. On Tuesday, in the class, he was using analogies for us where he was talking about problems and problem-solving, because that’s what product development is all about, solving problems, right? And he said something along the lines of, “in Nigeria we are too dependent on the government for our t
the colonial gaze (opens the original)
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the other day i watched a video about the british in india. the woman was talking about first contact, about how the colonisers arrived and found everything strange. the food was strange. the language was strange. the way people carried themselves was strange. but the thing that seemed to bother them most was the clothes.indian women did not dress the way englishwomen dressed. they covered what they wanted covered and left the rest to the air, because india is hot and the body has to breathe. it
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