Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪

Narrative Practitioner. Bridging research & lived experience on afro-masculinities, mental health & SRHR. Author: Leaving Is Love Too.

[Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪 @Rixpoet]

When I was depressed & suicidal in 2017, my close male friends would come home to keep me company. They'd do my laundry, my dishes, wash my house and open the curtains for me. None even knew what depression was, but they knew I was down and needed help. Their love lifted me.

[Paul Olind @OlindPaul]

One of the more exhausting trends on this platform is the refusal to acknowledge Africans as autonomous actors. Apparently, Africans can never develop even their own biases or prejudices independently; every opinion or attitude must always have been planted by someone else.

[Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪 @Rixpoet]

@ElvisKerabuAmen Do we have a railway network interlinking East Africa?

[Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪 @Rixpoet]

In Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on my way to Germany 🇩🇪. Europe is so interlinked it’s unsettling. It makes you wonder how transformed our lives would be if systems just worked for us back home.

[Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪 @Rixpoet]

@werewolf_254 It’s insane!

[Antonia @flaminhaystacks]

Look how they have romanticised this headline. Woman dies days after her partner is found dead.

Only when you read the article does it tell you Zoe Marie Dixon was bludgeoned with a hammer by her partner and it took her 6 days to die in hospital

He ran off and killed himself

[Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪 @Rixpoet]

@mitirikpwesings Oh thank you. ☺️🙈🌻🫶🏾

[Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪 @Rixpoet]

My performance at Roskilde Festival. 🇩🇰♥️

[Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪 @Rixpoet]

@tessa_mugenya Custom made by a friend.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The ever great cinematographer Ousmane Sembene captured the event in his film Camp de Thiaroye. I learned about it as a student when I watched the movie.

[En(during COVID) @DEC0L0NIZE]

"White people were, and are, astounded by the Holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But, I very much doubt whether Black people were astounded."

- James Baldwin, 1962

[Abu Iman @Mr_Guantai]

I had to scrub two chapters of my work where I clearly argued that there is no possibility of reforming the police FORCE as it is today. It is a chronically broken institution that cannot be mended. To truly fix things, we have to start from scratch.

[dominique☼ @saokodomi]

no shade it’s actually scary how many people think misogyny has to present itself as extreme hatred of women and violent rhetoric for them to consider it as such. casual misogyny is dangerous precisely because it often presents itself as normal, harmless, or “just a joke”

[Tobechi Ogazi, Esq. @TobechiOgazi]

A career in law teaches you, eventually, that most disputes are not about the law at all. They are about people who stopped listening to each other long before any lawyer was called.

[jonzing. @ehisssss]

some of us don't create to be seen; we create to finally see ourselves.

[marie @astou_jolie]

At this big age when people show signs of hidden animosity or weird energy, I just remove myself. I’m not trying to understand you and I’m not trying to make it make sense

[edward buri @edward_buri]

The system is upset that you still remember June 25. It is even more disturbed that your memory is not vague, but graphic —that you remember what happened that day, what followed in its wake, and what has continued to unfold ever since. This was not to be remembered.

[NAKAYIZA @Nakayiza_]

Oftentimes you see rape apologists on here screaming about "false accusations" yet the statistics still show that the system ALWAYS lets majority of rapists walk regardless of the age of their victims &stalls justice too.
Also, majority of the cishet men are predators btw! 👇🏾

[𝜗℘ @lacedli]

The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.

[Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪 @Rixpoet]

@_benjvmins_ adrienne maree brown “touches” on it in this book. 📖😍

[Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪 @Rixpoet]

@HattJulez Yep.