now that I am old and very conservative, I must confess I am distressed by the absence of foot fetishism on here
not enough of you are sucking on toes
and I don't mean those pretty feet that have been pampered and loved
I'm talking those feet that run marathons and walk over thorns and kick ostriches—DO NOT KICK OSTRICHES—and can be used when shops are out of sandpaper
those feet
now, those are true feet
it's like
you know
(I am cursed with beautifully soft hands—NO MATTER WHAT I DO)
so, like, hands with texture
those are interesting hands
raspy hands
oh, yes
BUT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT FEET!
anyway, as I once said, foot fetishism is difficult in a country with jiggers
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3. Idea of “home” as a threatened space that must
be defended. This idea has transformed rural spaces into militarized spaces, where young people can be easily recruited to defend home.
now I'm wondering what version of an origin story I'd tell
my grandfather, for whom I'm named, was a teacher
he'd have been in the first generation of Kenyans taught to read and write by the British colonizers—generation is a weird term to use here
he taught primary school
about his father, I know very little
I've thought for a while that there's something about how "family history" disperses in polygamous families, something about how it fragments, and is difficult to collect
lineage does not work with polygynous mothering
that is not a way to tell this type of story, where mother means mother means mother, and care moves across and through and around something called blood
@Nanjala1 And those blurbs!
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Lethal and restless, yet tender and vulnerable. Disturbing, delicious, defiant. A triumph.’ — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor,
@Nanjala1 Nyabola’s is a profound, gripping and beautiful book of undeniable genius on exile, migration and travel in our catastrophic times—Cornel West