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Last night, I dreamt I was a seal
On stress dreams and transitions
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Oriana Koren
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A Wild, Precious Life
On having absolutely no idea what I'm doing but loving every second of the uncertainty of it all
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Oriana Koren
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March 2021
Notes on a Practice
I've been thinking a lot about Blackness as a technology for human evolution. This is the first in a series of essays exploring this framework.
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Oriana Koren
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February 2021
We Live in Hell
I am fully embracing being a godless heathen because I want to be closer to my humanity. You can thank 2020 for that shit, and the Crown.
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Oriana Koren
December 2020
20/20, A Plague Year in Review
With photographs, as a treat! Best read via Substack, not via your email client because this letter is too long to read in your inbox
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Oriana Koren
Substack is the new Live Journal
Musings on the Old Internet, Being h*rny on main, and documenting a life. Last essay of the year, folks!
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Oriana Koren
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
How Language Can Perpetuate Racism
In another blast from the past episode, here's my Linguistic Anthropology final paper on how language can perpetuate racism against native Spanish and…
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Oriana Koren
August 2020
I would like to read you a poem, #1
Listen now (2 min) | How Can Black People Write About Flowers At A Time Like This by Hanif Abdurraqib from the collection ‘A Fortune for Your Disaster…
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Oriana Koren
Beyonce's 'Lemonade' is the epitome of Black girl magic
Originally published at the now defunct (RIP), The Establishment, back in 2016
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