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BEFORE YOU GO
Perhaps none of us has quite figured it out. A final thought on healing, uncertainty, the conversations we carry and the possibility that feeling understood is sometimes enough.
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The first issue of come and sit with me. the unsaid explores the thoughts, experiences and conversations we often leave unspoken.
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THE BIG QUESTION
There is a difference between being content and becoming accustomed to something. Have you built a life that makes you happy, or have you simply learnt how to live with what you have?
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THE THINGS I NEVER SAID OUT LOUD
Some feelings are difficult to explain, so we carry them quietly. A short poem about missed people, unspoken apologies, complicated emotions and the things we wish we’d found the courage to say.
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A CONVERSATION
We say we want honest conversations, but how often are we actually willing to listen? A conversation about ego, disagreement, empathy and the uncomfortable possibility that we might not always be right.
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THE UNSAID
Some thoughts never make it into conversation. From guilt and jealousy to love, exhaustion and the things we struggle to admit, these personal and illustrative confessions make room for what usually stays hidden.
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THE WOMAN, THE MYTH, AND THE GROUP CHAT
Who decided what a woman should be, and whose experiences were left out of that definition? Exploring Black women, media representation, feminism and the inherited expectations that influence how women are seen, judged and understood.
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PREXXIIE SAYS: If My Dad Had Known Me
Sometimes I wonder what kind of woman I’d be if my dad had actually known me. Would I see myself differently? Would I have accepted less from people? Or would I still be figuring it all out? An uncomfortable conversation with the life I never got to live.
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A Study in Chaos: The Case of the Modern Man (and the Women He Calls Fallen)
An investigation into modern relationships, contradictory expectations and the curious rules governing who gets called an angel and who gets labelled difficult. The evidence is complicated. The suspects are familiar. And the case remains unsolved.
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MY NAME ARRIVED BEFORE I DID
Our names, our skin, our accents and the assumptions people attach to them often arrive before we do. A personal reflection on migration, identity, belonging and learning to exist in spaces that may have already decided who you are.
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The Editor's Letter
There are things we think at 2am that would sound completely different at 2pm. Opinions we swallow, questions we avoid and experiences we convince ourselves nobody else has noticed. So I made somewhere for them to go.