Zionadebisi Personal essays, notes, and ideas worth sharing. Browse Latest Posts This is my corner of the internet. I write about whatever catches my attention: books I can’t stop thinking about, projects that consume me, half-formed ideas, and sometimes just…
There is a period at the end of it. That is the first thing I notice. Not the word itself — meh is almost too familiar to see — but the full stop sitting after it like a closed door….
The shirt does not say Cat Daddy in one clean line. It says C and T on either side of a cat silhouette, and then, beneath that small dark shape, the word Daddy. Light lettering on a dark ground. The…
Four vegetables, all smiling. A carrot, a radish, a beet, an onion. Their roots hang visible beneath them, thin and pale against the soil line, as if someone has pulled them up just enough to show you what holds them…
The shirt does not whisper. That is the first thing to notice. The word is meh. — lowercase, a full stop after it, set in a heavy bold white against a dark ground. It is not a small, apologetic meh….
GOT TOO SILLY. The words sit above a white goose-like bird in an orange prison uniform, holding a black mugshot board. The bird’s expression is not contrite. That is the first thing I notice. A mugshot is supposed to record…
The shirt says I HAD POTENTIAL in white capitals across the chest. Beneath the words, a white curved ramp descends from left to right. At the top left ledge, a dashed empty circle. At the bottom right, a solid white…
The notification banner is white and rounded, the kind of shape a phone makes when it wants your attention. A small bell sits at its left edge. The words inside read: There is motion at your front door. Below the…
The shirt does not say much. Three words in a column, or perhaps a row, depending on how the printer has set them: THANKFUL, GRATEFUL, BLESSED. Beside them, or woven through them, wheat stalks. That is the whole design. No…
The shirt says I GOT THAT DOG in cream lettering, then IN ME beneath it, and between the two lines sits a small tan chihuahua in red boxing gloves. Behind the dog, on a brick wall, a much larger black…
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The shirt does not ask for anything. It states a condition. In block capitals, the kind used on wet-floor signs and electrical warnings, it reads NOT FRIENDLY. Below that,…