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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 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.


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.


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.


The Highest Understanding
Experience is the apotheosis of the slap-in-the-face nature of reality.


How To Dance Underwater
All the glory this uncanny dimension has to offer.


The Perks Of Being An Outsider
Turn the weirdness quota up to eleventy-five.
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