Author: mamello m

• Of Defiant Love

  It is a defiant thought A growing rebellion My deepest, happiest, most frightening secret: I love myself even when I am love and hate all at once even when death…

• Black, Black, Blackity, Black: A Caucacious Encounter with a Becky

  “the other day…you know…sit down, let me talk to you. The other day when you were dressed… in your clothes, you look very pretty, you’re a pretty girl- but you…

• Coconut Oil

  I’m sitting here, on my bed, on her bed, a strange bed, it is still my first week in England. I have just taken a shower and I’m doing my…

• Personal Mastery

  “Personal Mastery is a lifelong journey, you never arrive, it is a commitment to continuously improve yourself.” “Personal Mastery is about: -self love -awareness of what has shaped you -a…

• A Praise Song for the Womxn I am Becoming

  A Praise Song Those moments when I catch a glimpse of myself and marvel! I live for those moments My body has known few of them So when they happen…

• Overcoming Subversive Violence a Lesson in Singing to the Moon

  It took me falling in love to learn how truly broken I was.  You never know how many messages about loving wrong are ingested from the toxic relationships you grow…

• Body Positivity, a Cyclical Process: because yesterday, I still cried.

  “no one can define who you are without your permission”- @anisahamat_ (IG). For years, I have internalised so many harmful lessons, unlearning them is taking just as long. From family,…

• Unlearning Human Aspirations

  “The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction”  – Toni Morrison They tell us we are apes, so we spend our time hating apes and fighting to be…

• Escaping Here, to Me!

  This is a poem I wrote on my first few days of travelling in Germany and Poland. The poem was inspired by series of events in which I found myself,…

• Unfinished. Becoming

   incompleteness. a fear that has become me Unfinished. starting is difficult continuing is easy but the end? its as elusive as ever Becoming Its a process Nothing is incomplete. Just…