Vagabond
Tosin PopoolaA journal on family, Yoruba culture, language, art, divinity, and the long process of understanding where I come from. Part research, part memory, part return.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 20 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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Until the Silt Is Stirred Again.
August 21st. 12:34am.
My world is shaking. That’s what Cameron said to me. “Your world is shaking, but that’s just a chance to feel and experience something new. To me, those two things you’re feeling aren’t even in conflict.”
It’s alway...
The Weight Of Metal
Let’s go down memory lane.
It’s the 1850s, and memory itself is expensive. The only people who could afford to be remembered were those who could afford silver and glass—silver for daguerreotypes, glass for ambrotypes.
So if you were poor...
The Best-Kept Secret
25 June 2025.
St Petersburg, Tampa Bay,
Florida.
I saw my father cry up close for the first time this summer. He had picked me up from the airport after my flight from Santa Barbara. That morning, Cleveland had a sky full of floating m...
My Mother’s First Tintype; A Portrait on Metal, Across Time.
June 27th, 1:52 a.m.
St. Petersburg, Florida
My mother’s reaction to her first tintype was one I should have expected.
If it had been the first time she had shrugged at a photograph I made of her, it might have felt personal. In this da...
Labalábá
June 20th, 2026. St. Petersburg, FL.
What I think I know is no longer enough.
I have reached a point in my life where I need more information about my past.
One could say I am in a phase of choosing to study. This phase started years ago...
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