scribbles
unpolished thoughts on anything and everything (and sometimes nothing at all)
27 scribbles · 2021 – 2026
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- after hellopersonal reflections
bumble for basketball
let's give this app a little more than a minute
- after hellopersonal reflections
what comes after hello
on the days when the scripts go missing
- nonsense rambles
silenced by slacks
the only rational explanation for why my zips keep breaking
- observations
knicks in 5
there is a flip side to every victory
- sparks
lean forward vs lean back consumption
not all content is equal: some is made to be watched, some just to be scrolled past
- observations
it's rough out here as a black woman
the burdens of black womanhood can't be escaped, even in paradise
- observations
seeing yourself in stories
when the stories told about people like you still aren't quite about you
- observations
imposed unity creates inherited instability
Africa's instability isn't just a cultural character flaw, it's a colonial consequence
- observations
integration into a broken system is not liberation
integration isn't freedom, it's the first step
- sparks
yoruba's lost c
midnight musings on the gaps in the Yoruba alphabet
- observations
rappers haven't written songs since the 90s
how hip hop ditched the pen and pad
- personal reflections
a journey to where?
where do you go when there's no longer a map to guide you?
- observations
finding a rhythm
the beat is constant, yet ever evolving
- personal reflections
to be a patriot
on what it means to truly love your country...
- observations
a language is a dialect with an army and a navy
on what it takes to legitimise a language
- sparks
gazing upon a woman
on realising that, to the world, I am a woman
- observations
we like black and white, it's easy
greys murky the water, but it's where humanisation begins
- nonsense rambles
210 seconds
a clueless individual attempting to tackle an interview task
- personal reflections
a divided man
a portrait of an immigrant's internal fracture, told in the spreading of ashes
- nonsense rambles
death by valentine
the final words of Cupid's latest victim
- mild takes
happily ever after?
why Love and Basketball's final quarter fell short
- personal reflections
where identity stems
it all comes back down to who's I am and where I am from
- mild takes
when romanticism meets reality
I may have just found my new all-time favourite cinematic trilogy
- personal reflections
look to your locs
when things get hard I look to my locs
- nonsense rambles
zero to one hundred
whiney waffles of a slightly delirious individual
- personal reflections
a few kind words
the selfish joy found in sending a message of appreciation
- personal reflections
hiding from the light
wrestling with the desire to be known
categories
- mild takes informal reactions to media or culture
- observations broader cultural or political commentary
- sparks ideas sparked by something read or heard, not yet developed
- personal reflections inward-looking, identity, lived experience
- nonsense rambles unfiltered, in-the-moment writing