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Keguro Macharia

is a lover of language. He suffers recursive writing tics that leave him tarrying in footnotes, asides, the overheard, snippets, fragments, & the slide around particularities delivered as sound, not narrative.

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echoes of loss

By Keguro MachariaDecember 16, 2014
we gather for the ungeographies of slow death, fast death, silent death, unseen death, unbearable death: Mpeketoni, Gaza, Ferguson, Peshawar, Mandera
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radical queer africa

By Keguro MachariaDecember 15, 2014
What would queer Africa look like detached from racist developmental logics?
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Reading the U.S. Torture Footnotes

By Keguro MachariaDecember 10, 2014
How might we understand mourning, when the event has yet to end? When the injuries not only perdure, but are inflicted anew?—Saidiya Hartman
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Blind Peer Review

By Keguro MachariaNovember 30, 2014
Blind Peer Review: or, the tragic life of imprecise prose
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terrain & terroir

By Keguro MachariaNovember 11, 2014
What bodies are being produced as Ugandan? What spaces as public spaces? What intimacies as possible intimacies?
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Reporting

By Keguro MachariaNovember 4, 2014
It’s difficult to feel intimidated by maize-eating police. Here, in their space, there’s an at-homeness to police bodies and postures.
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#mybodymyhome (iii)

By Keguro MachariaOctober 20, 2014
Rebeka Njau’s The Sacred Seed imagines that Kenyan women can create and inhabit freedom, justice, and healing.
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red dots

By Keguro MachariaOctober 14, 2014
A trail of small red dots connect Tyna Adebowale’s body of work.
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#mybodymyhome (ii)

By Keguro MachariaOctober 9, 2014
The moment when a feeling enters the body is political. This touch is political.
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#mybodymyhome (i)

By Keguro MachariaOctober 3, 2014
Pursuing Freedom Dreams
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Change of Place: Kasarani-Gaza-Ferguson

By Keguro MachariaOctober 2, 2014
How, I wonder, do the disposable survive?
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Wailing

By Keguro MachariaJune 26, 2013
Something has died.

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