aliyyaa maya 🪷

Self-preservation will require you to lose a lot of arguments.

is it worth it?

Jun 15 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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May 2026

Dancing at the End of World: My mother's story surviving the 80's NYC Crack Epidemic.

This featured interview is of my mother and her personal account of experiencing the New York City crack epidemic through the 1980’s.

May 11 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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March 2026

Sorry, you can not live through Latto's light skin.

there's things we're not saying.

Mar 22 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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24

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December 2025

growing up a Kwanzaa kid.

Every year, this time of year it’s time for me to come out as super-duper black and reveal to someone I celebrate Kwanzaa.

Dec 27, 2025 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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August 2025

What is there left to say?

a free write poem.

Aug 13, 2025 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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June 2025

Do single mothers remind you of the you you're trying to forget?

you're hiding from what they can't.

Jun 28, 2025 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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May 2025

Bigotry is death-avoidant.

We are ALL going to die.

May 22, 2025 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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How do you mourn not being able to save the world?

We all are bombarded.

May 4, 2025 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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April 2025

The fresh air of being a nobody.

I was seventeen in an afterschool poetry workshop when the class instructor asked us to ten minute freewrite about fears.

Apr 19, 2025 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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I don't like shy people.

being shy is a choice.

Apr 16, 2025 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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Hayao Miyazaki, AI art and the Desire for Instant Praise.

Hayao Miyazaki is trending around social media for the absolutely most irritating reason ever.

Apr 1, 2025 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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March 2025

You're not sad babygirl, you're angry as hell

Over the past few years, I’ve morphed into a big sister for younger friends and girlies online.

Mar 9, 2025 • aliyyaa maya 🪷

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