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6/12/2025, 9:18:15 AM

The way this review tackles attitudes towards food is such an experience. https://coldtakegeeks.co.ke/gourmet-makes-bigger-and-the-bad-eating-habits-plaguing-men-f704871a9b3d

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6/8/2025, 10:07:06 PM

"...as long as we hold onto masculinity—healthy or otherwise— as the ideal, we will continue to devalue boys and men who are less masculine. We will devalue women. We will continue to pump the minds of boys and men full of shame over the healthy human parts of themselves that they see as feminine." https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/positive-masculinity

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5/22/2025, 11:53:11 PM

“You think “putting yourself first” is noble, even when it becomes a habit of leaving everyone else last. You want the rewards of connection with none of the inconvenience of participation. You flake and call it self-preservation. You ghost and call it peace. You don’t go to the birthday, don’t reply to the message, don’t leave your house, and then you cry about how no one checks in anymore. You’ve mistaken isolation for empowerment. You’re a bitch, and that’s why we lack community.” https://open.substack.com/pub/personalscriptures/p/youre-a-bitch-and-thats-why-we-lack?r=jh8zt&utm_medium=ios (moved to substack for the ‘feel-good’ aesthetic but damn! hard knocks from all de corners😖)

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5/22/2025, 11:51:21 PM

A fave has bitten the dust. Alas. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

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5/19/2025, 10:07:32 AM

Excited to share that I will be participating in this year’s Nairobi Litfest as a moderator. I look forward to seeing you there (and lmk if you'll be coming!) https://nairobilitfest.com/

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2/11/2025, 5:56:26 PM

Here's a request from this library lover: Please vote for Queer Liberation Library on your phone, your tablet, your laptop, and/or your desktop in this year's Project for Awesome fundraiser! 💰🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚 Thank you ❤️ https://www.projectforawesome.com/watch?v=itcYvJI89a4

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2/1/2025, 5:17:44 PM

TIL about Pedro Zamora. This is a riveting introduction: https://youtu.be/o2Le9Bf_s3w?si=r1fD4oXRcWjeZBqA

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2/12/2025, 8:29:54 PM

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents https://youtu.be/e0UgiE8vYuI?si=EZIWgCDiLhNFVQ57

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2/4/2025, 10:54:20 AM

"But if I had to guess, Gen Z’s misunderstanding of journalism is a nationwide — if not global — epidemic." I felt both old and scared reading this. https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/gen-z-lacks-understanding-journalism-news-media/

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2/13/2025, 6:37:48 PM

"To save our movements, we need to come to terms with the connections between gender violence, male privilege, and the strategies that informants (and people who just act like them) use to destabilize radical movements." As a person who has left Leftist spaces because of how pervasive misogyny is, this [US-focused, sadly generalizable] piece struck a chord https://truthout.org/articles/why-misogynists-make-great-informants/