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Hadiyyah Kuma
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Apr 6, 2021

The Colour Yellow

On ephemeral sources of hope and friendship — It’s not very versatile. I tried to paint my nails yellow and it looked like pale slush. The polish itself was lumpy, so maybe that was the real problem, but I don’t think so. Yellow and I have always had a complicated relationship. I don’t look good in most shades…

Yellow

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The Colour Yellow
The Colour Yellow
Yellow

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Jul 3, 2020

Educating Indo-Guyanese Communities on Anti-Blackness (+Reading List)

A work in progress — I have thought about writing something like this for years, rather than only posting about it on social media. So here are my thoughts on how I, and those some from the same ethnic background as me, can offer our support to the Black Lives Matter movement, and to Black…

Guyana

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Educating Indo-Guyanese Communities on Anti-Blackness (+Reading List)
Educating Indo-Guyanese Communities on Anti-Blackness (+Reading List)
Guyana

11 min read


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·Jan 28, 2020

It’s Time for Asians to Drop Their ‘Blaccent’

‘Talking Black’ doesn’t make you cool. It makes you racist. — Cultural appropriation is a racist practice that devalues a culture’s history and language and thus disrespects its origins by claiming something to be your own when it’s not. It’s fairly commonplace, with non-Black people appropriating anything from clothes to hairstyles. But the appropriation and theft of African American Vernacular English…

Culture

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It’s Time for Asians to Drop Their ‘Blaccent’
It’s Time for Asians to Drop Their ‘Blaccent’
Culture

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Sep 14, 2019

In Hollywood, South Asian Characters Can’t Come-of-Age Without Assimilating

Where do we look for representation? — I grew up on Mean Girls, Clueless, and 10 Things I Hate About You and I have no regrets for knowing all the words to Regina George’s vicious monologues. But I also grew up on Bollywood, and I will always be a fan of 90s superhits with coming of age…

Race

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In Hollywood, South Asian Characters Can’t Come-of-Age Without Assimilating
In Hollywood, South Asian Characters Can’t Come-of-Age Without Assimilating
Race

12 min read


Aug 22, 2019

What’s In A Name, And Who’s Asking?

At Pizza Pizza, Starbucks, and the photo store down my street, my name is Sara. It’s not a lie. It’s my middle name. It’s easy to spell. It’s “normal.” As I approach 20, I find myself thinking more about what this word “normal” means. A few months ago, I read…

Racism

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What’s In A Name, And Who’s Asking?
What’s In A Name, And Who’s Asking?
Racism

4 min read


Jul 17, 2019

What Young People Need From The Hunger Games Prequel

Gen-Z Needs Suzanne Collins To Answer Some Tough Questions The Hunger Games arrived five years ago on the cusp of social movements sparked by the next generation of young people, and it could be the perfect time for a comeback of the modern revolutionary classic. A lot of weird things…

The Hunger Games

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What Young People Need From The Hunger Games Prequel
What Young People Need From The Hunger Games Prequel
The Hunger Games

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Jun 18, 2019

Finding the World Within

No one will know about my family’s struggle with mental illness because no one will talk about it. Generations have lost this knowledge and now I have only my mother’s half-hearted attempts at storytelling to help me understand my own mind. A slim recount of my grandmother’s breakdown and other…

Mental Health

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Finding the World Within
Finding the World Within
Mental Health

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Jun 10, 2019

Hunnybee In The Tree — Winnie The Pooh’s Impact on my Life

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day,” says Winnie the Pooh in A.A Milne’s classic novel. There we have one of the most important lessons for today’s world. It’s okay to just do nothing sometimes. When I was three years old I got my first life-sized…

Winnie The Pooh

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Hunnybee In The Tree — Winnie The Pooh’s Impact on my Life
Hunnybee In The Tree — Winnie The Pooh’s Impact on my Life
Winnie The Pooh

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May 7, 2019

My Guyanese Mom Taught Me Period Protocol at a Young Age-What That Means to Me Now

The future of menstrual education — My grandmother is one of the greatest women I know, but even she fell into the harmful pitfalls of traditionalism. When my mother first got her period, she was chastised and yelled at for having blossomed at such a young age. Eleven was not old enough to be a woman…

Women

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My Guyanese Mom Taught Me Period Protocol at a Young Age-What That Means to Me Now
My Guyanese Mom Taught Me Period Protocol at a Young Age-What That Means to Me Now
Women

7 min read


Dec 19, 2018

What happened to magic?

I was six years old when I realized that Santa Claus wasn’t real, but I told no one. I let everyone in my family believe that I was waiting for the big red bringer of gifts to bestow me with my hopes and dreams. The older I got, the more…

Christmas

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What happened to magic?
What happened to magic?
Christmas

4 min read

Hadiyyah Kuma

Hadiyyah Kuma

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Fiction writer, poet, and freelancer. Indo-Guyanese. Professional yawner. Twitter @hahadiyyah Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/hadiyyah

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