A look at the benefits of artistic expression—especially visual art—beyond political commentary, protest art, and art for social change. I feel that the arts have often been studied and considered for the social commentary and political protest that it can embody, or put forth. I feel that the arts have been lauded or approved of…
Read Morec: long prose poem/third-person essay. 🛐🏵💔 actually, this might be just a stream-of-consciousness journal entry that’s written in the third person. (third person, past tense.) i think this can be described as a vignette or a lyric essay, too.
She felt that the difficulties in her life could never have been avoided, really; that it was just something that had happened, that had happened very forcefully and almost authoritatively (violently), and that there was absolutely no stopping of it, at all. This realization gave her a lot of peace of mind and enough resolve…
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I feel that there’s nothing I can’t do. I can go walking outside; I can listen to music on my mp3 player while lying down on my small bed in the corner of my room (I pushed it there so that I can be in the corner, at the intersection of the two walls); I…
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The current discourse on outsiders and outcasts seems to further alienate and derogate them, rather than achieve the goal of defining them in a neutral manner, or showing any empathy to them. In addition, the current discourse seems to define them through potential sociopolitical aspects of their identities–demographic traits like sexual orientation, religious beliefs and…
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You just have to live to the best of your ability. Suicide is not an option. Do what you love to do; that will really help you keep living. Just make it to the finish line, which is natural death. | Dysfunction (living life in a dysfunctional way), suicide, and trying to attain a life…
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I’m still trying to chill out, and recuperate from all of the pointed abuse and torture I got from other people, during the course of my life. If nobody likes me or talks to me in my life, that’s perfectly ok. I don’t like people, either. I’m coming to that conclusion more and more every…
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This is what I’ve been doing lately to deal with pain and difficulty; Feel what you have to feel. Don’t suffer needlessly with it—meaning; don’t inflate it beyond its limits—but definitely feel what you have to feel. That’s the only way it’ll leave. Suppressing it or ignoring it never diminishes it, in the long run.…
Read Morethoughts on a book, a biography
I really like this book I recently read–it’s a biography of a poet named Ingrid Jonker (the “J” is pronounced as a “y”), who was an Afrikaner poet. The biography is titled Ingrid Jonker: Poet Under Apartheid. This book is interesting and insightful because it provides glimpses into the political scheme in South Africa during…
Read More“untitled,” and “June 4, 2021.”
Untitled The only place I truly feel at peace is inside of a quiet mosque. Even if god doesn’t exist at all. The only place I feel legitimately at peace is inside of a quiet (and by that I really mean empty) mosque. Me, my book, and god. That’s it. The book doesn’t judge, abuse,…
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[I was born in sudan. left at age 2…. I think all countries of the world are beautiful, + have a lot to offer. Everyone does, it doesn’t matter where you’re from or what religion or ethncity you have.. black Americans are some of my favrite ethnic groups in the world… sudanese… latin/o/a/x….. litrly everybody.…
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