Writer: words in @okayafrica, @dailymonitor, @writivism, @UPPAward, @AndariyaMag. Comms • Critical Theory • The Arts. Creator & Executive Producer, @beingartsy_
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17 Jan 2022
I wrote an essay about #Uganda-n #arts: what's been, what is, what could be; and my ambitious hope for our generation. Writing this essay challenged me in ways I didn't know it would. I hope it challenges and inspires other creative artists. Read, let me know your thoughts!
17 Jan 2022
“As a generation, our work is cut out for us: we have a responsibility to retrieve the arts from the jaws of both the leopard and capitalist structures.”
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Israel has wiped out 2,000 entire families in Gaza, but this arsehole is having a hard time.
Adam Brody says it’s a tough time for Jewish people, and believes his show was well received because it felt “safe and celebratory” without diving into politics. #ActorsOnActors
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Jun 12
A societal stance my autistic brain can't comprehend is how acknowledging that someone has treated you badly and calling them out on it is considered more disrespectful than actually treating someone badly. It's as if drawing attention to a misdeed is worse than committing one.
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Jun 12
Yet we are constantly told that men have the best, stress-free and uncomplicated friendships.
Jun 11
If a woman is stressed, she has a group chat, a sister or a therapist to vent to.
When a man is stressed, he sits in his car for 30 minutes, stares into space, sighs and goes inside to face the family.
He is his own only safety net.
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The myth of democracy can’t survive into the age of trillionaires—the ruling class isn’t even pretending it will. They’re busy preparing for an entirely different future than the one they’re selling us on. In fact most of us don’t appear in their future at all. This may be our last moment of choice.
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Jun 12
RT @baddaysareover: The hate we’re getting from the rest of the world obviously hurts and it’s upsetting ‘cause we’re not all xenophobic lo…
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Jun 11
In 1966, All African counties boycotted the World Cup to protest apartheid and how black South Africans were marginalized
In 2026, All African countries supported Mexico against South Africa in protest against their xenophobia
Live long enough
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Jun 11
We don’t accept your apology. I join my teacher Dr. Atim Patricia Nalongo. She mentions steps DS Tayebwa would have taken to make the apology a little genuine. Many here asked him to at least return the generator he got irregularly so that it can serve many Ugandans at a healthy facility at least. I also add that both he and his current boss can demonstrate that they will do better by using the appropriation and budget approval powers of Parliament to at least cater for one critical priority-#PayAllMedicalInterns
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Jun 8
Africa’s ruling class isn’t a fully independent bourgeoisie, they’re intermediaries.
They manage extraction on behalf of foreign capital in exchange for personal accumulation
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Jun 8
Africa’s ruling class isn’t a fully independent bourgeoisie, they’re intermediaries.
They manage extraction on behalf of foreign capital in exchange for personal accumulation
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Jun 9
The city’s intelligence network.
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Jun 8
Jane Austen was a satirist, not a romance writer. Every adaptation that turns her into soft candlelight and longing glances has successfully removed the thing that made her a genius. She was mean. That was the point.
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Jun 8
Something irks me when a black person uses the word "woke" as a pejorative.
Idris Elba says James Bond shouldn't be "woke":
“Bond is so unrealistic, so a hint of reality is good, but let’s not try and make it woke. I think you’ve got to be pure to what it is: escapism. Don’t try and answer the world’s taste. Just be Bond.” variety.com/2026/film/global…
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Jun 9
“Ehhh, I want your life.” Girl [gender-neutral], I just got off back-to-back all nighters between assignments. I am simply reclaiming rest and joy.
We’ve normalized burnout so much that having a life outside work feels radical.
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Jun 8
He returned from a Windsor knighthood and said I am a good Blackie now, folks.👐🏾
Idris Elba says James Bond doesn’t need to be “woke”
“Bond is big all over the world. And audiences won’t [all] go for a Black male, an African male, playing Bond. That’s not what they like in their culture. Period…
Bond is so unrealistic, so a hint of reality is good, but let’s not try and make it woke. I think you’ve got to be pure to what it is: escapism. Don’t try and answer the world’s taste. Just be Bond.”
(Source: gq-magazine.co.uk/article/id…)
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stay beautiful and sweet but please have a backbone babe.
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That same fraternity bullied me for days over a tweet not one or two a whole rugby fraternity ganged up on me ,used my photos as a meme for days , they're the online "boda men " !!!!
Hopefully they do better going forward and again it is well .
Jun 8
Joining in the bullying because the timeline is bullying.
Assaulting a stranger because you found them being assaulted.
Being a bystander during an injustice because ‘I don’t wanna get involved’.
Talk is about bodabodas, but the entire society IS bodabodas in varying degrees.
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Jun 7
i love how whenever there’s some news about new york now it’s always posted with a pic of this megawatt cutiepie smile
Jun 5
New York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history.
Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.
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It’s exhausting
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