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NOW YOU FOUND LOVE

You’ve found love, now what next? The fairy tales always end with the tag line “…and they lived happily ever after”, but when reality hits, you realize that’s the biggest

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TOO GAY TO BE STRAIGHT

Every now and then, I get friends who, when they visit me, ask: “Do your neighbours know about you?” And for awhile, my response was always: “I don’t know. I

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THE SECOND CHANCE

My hands shook as I typed this, and several times, my phone almost fell out from the grasp of my nerveless fingers. I was feeling a bit tired and worn

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That Piece About The Psychology of Hateful Words

Originally published on advocate.com Remember as a kid when you got teased at school or by a sibling, maybe the neighborhood bully? They would say something only the dark and

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TRAPPED

I had just finished secondary school and due to some misfortune with JAMB (my surname was wrongly spelt), I was to retake the exam. At this time, my aunt asked

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The Doomed Love Story of the Muslim Woman Who Fell In Love With Another

Originally published on abiyamo.com When Sanjida Akter left home to study, she met the person she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. The only problem – her

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Under Construction: Kitchen Sink

…because a kitchen sink to you is not a kitchen sink to me. It hardly is black and white. Happy or sad. Good or bad. Okay or not okay. Much

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Have You Seen My Childhood?

Here’s a little story that I’d like to tell, about a kid who had it all… Yup – the good, the bad, and the OMG. The other day when I

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A TALE OF THREE BROTHERS

Okay, so this might seem like the usual ranting. Or maybe I have just been unfortunate in the game of love. Maybe I have been meeting the wrong set of

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The Straight Roommate

There was something about KCee. This I knew from the first moment I saw him. His charisma was just different from your typical first year student’s. Bearded, funky, overly confident