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debayan

decolonise. decenter. dismantle. we don’t inherit the canon — we interrogate it. a journal of refusal, re-memory, and radical reconstruction. no gods, no gatekeepers, no gratitude.

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the manifesto of the unfed

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

~ Nelson Mandela, 1997, speech in Pretoria.

I. The Age of Starvation

I have not eaten properly in days.

Neither out of discipline...

a year ago
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i saw hunger laying bricks

i saw hunger

laying bricks for the new mall of unity,

its ribs showing through a torn shirt

like scaffolding beneath unfinished glass walls.

i saw dust name the children

before the state ever did—

cradled in cement tubs,

their lullab...

a year ago
4

some days i wake up and forget i’m grieving

Some days the sky does not open with rage. It just sits there — low and quiet and swollen — like it, too, is tired of breaking open.

The fan turns above me like a question with no punctuation. The rice water simmers on the stove. A bird I...

a year ago
4

the revolution will smell like rain

This isn’t a story to move you.

It's a rupture.

A refusal to be archived gently.

A ripple across the still waters of knowing.

We’ve spoken for centuries,

but only when our words were molded into metaphors,

their edges dulled by whit...

a year ago
4

what is knowledge without love?

There comes a moment in every thinking life when intellect begins to rot.

Not because it lacks rigour, but because it lacks tenderness.

Because it has learned to explain everything and touch nothing.

You preach justice with hands that ha...

a year ago
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