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…
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,…
There is a particular kind of quiet that lives in a lowercase meh. Not the loud, theatrical sigh of a bad day, but the small, centered, almost apologetic meh that sits on a dark shirt like a secret you are…
The shirt says Cat Daddy, but not in a straight line. The native garment preview shows a C and a T on either side of a cat silhouette, with Daddy sitting underneath. Light lettering on a dark shirt. The cat…
Refusal letters are administrative documents with a structure. They name a provision, state a finding, and stop. They are not verdicts on the family. They only feel like verdicts because of where they are kept. What I want to write…
Four root vegetables, smiling. A carrot, a radish, a beet, an onion, each drawn with its roots visible in the soil, and around them the words LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. The design is on…
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The shirt is dark. The word is white. The word is meh. — lowercase, bold, and enormous, stretched across the chest like a billboard for apathy. There is no…
There is a gele on the shelf above my desk that has been folded and refolded so many times it has gone soft at the creases. It is not a ceremonial cloth. It is the one I bought on a…
My grandmother died on a Tuesday, and by Wednesday afternoon my phone had become a small chapel of blue bubbles. It is well. It is well with your soul. E pele, omo mi. It is well. Some messages came with…
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There is a length of powder-blue aso ebi lace at the back of my wardrobe, still in its cellophane, from a wedding in Croydon three autumns ago. I have worn it once. I will almost certainly never wear it again….