Image | Wambui Mwangi Image | Wambui Mwangi Three semi-related pieces have emerged: A meditation on love, written when I felt more optimistic about the…

one hopes the juxtaposition of #rhodesmustfall, #cadaanstudies, and #blacklivesmatter creates space for dialogue

We-formations are wake formations: we-formations might be about the mati work of wake work.

You are not coming to teach the natives.

Angels uproot us. Their rage is terrifying. Their demands impossible. Their words unbearable. And then they leave.

Our two worlds scrape together like the two halves of a broken bone.--Sofia Samatar

Over the next month, I’ll be blogging on Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria

It might be, as some suggest, that the Security Act will change little about everyday Kenyan life.

Kenya’s vision of the human becomes smaller—human-recognizing filaments snap

Restrictions in the Security Act attempt to silence independent media and citizen reporters.

The amendments in the Security Act increase refugee vulnerability. They are anti-refugee and anti-human rights.

Kenya’s recently passed Security Act substantially increases police power while reducing civilian scrutiny of police actions.

A brief map of the laws amended by Kenya's Security Laws (Amendments) Act, 2014.

I write these posts because I am dedicated to pursuing freedom, to making lives less disposable, and to making futures more imaginable.

Kenya’s president, former ICC indictee Uhuru Kenyatta, assented to a very bad law on December 19, 2014.