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Fairytales For Lost Children
Diriye Osman's 'Fairytales For Lost Children' was a critical and cultural intervention. Read about it here.
The Literary Gifts of Ari Gautier
Diriye Osman profiles incandescent French Indo-Malagasy writer and curator, Ari Gautier.
The Diriye Osman Media Archive
A comprehensive list of articles, essays, interviews, videos and audio clips featuring Diriye Osman.
The Butterfly Jungle
The queer black body as sex and sweat and Somalinimo.
Ghost Notes
All discourses can be co-opted and weaponised against you, the victim.
La Mariposa de Cristal
Let us sing, reader. Let us sing.
Honouring Acts
Freedom is a hymn and a holler. Freedom is simply believing that your life matters.
The Moon Is Underwater
A kiss from God is a dirt-coated diamond buried inside the evening-red of the human animal.
Céline Ramsamy-Giancone, Historian Du Jour
Preeminent historian, Céline Ramsamy-Giancone, on feminism, colonialism, and Réunionese culture.
The Responsibility of Writing a Queer #MeToo Story
Diriye Osman on writing a queer #MeToo Story
The New Inquiry Interview
Diriye Osman is profiled by Sofia Samatar for The New Inquiry.
Open Country Interview
Diriye Osman talks with Open Country Magazine in this in-depth profile.
The Literary Collages Of Sofia Samatar
Literary maestro, Sofia Samatar, discusses her dazzling memoir, 'The White Mosque.'
Orbits of Loss (and Other Miseducations)
To deny the saber's cut as anything less than an injury would be doing a disservice to your personhood.
The Loneliness Of The Queer Writer
On the loneliness of the radical queer writer.
Centering Queer African Immigrants
Diriye Osman on centering human beings who have been gaslit into thinking they don't exist.
On Joyful Queer Love Stories
Diriye Osman on 'The Butterfly Jungle' and the value of joyful queer love stories.
The Spiritual Lives of Queer Afrofabulists
Technologized spirituality and faith systems in 'The Butterfly Jungle'.
Devouring The Dragon
May you know that you are the source of this song.
Foraging For Peace In The Fire
Finding molecules of sanity within the flames.
Why I Wrote About An All-Queer British-Somali Family
Queer afrofabulism steeped in the syntax of love.
Seeker Of A Deeper Ether
Notes on Honest Self-Accounting.
The Butterfly Jungle Collection
Enter the world of Diriye Osman's delicious, afrofabulist new story collection.
Enoughism
Consumerism and hard-edged hypocrisy collide in this piece of flash fiction by Diriye Osman.
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