So, You Want The Soft Life?

So, you want the soft life?

Aug 8 • Blessing Omakwu

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July 2026

What If Deconstruction Is Only Half the Work?

I stopped going to church.

Jul 17 • Blessing Omakwu

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June 2026

The Prestige of Black Pain

This year marks ten years since Issa Rae’s Insecure first premiered.

Jun 23 • Blessing Omakwu

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The Male Breadwinner Is Dead

On the recently concluded Season 15 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, newbie Amanda Frances got a lot of flak from her co-stars and viewers…

Jun 9 • Blessing Omakwu

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November 2025

I Write What I Like

Author’s Note: The Pivot Diaries was a series of personal essays about reinvention: leaving, burnout, faith, migration, healing, ambition, womanhood…

Nov 9, 2025 • Blessing Omakwu

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October 2025

The Geography Of Becoming

Or: The Theology Of Place, II

Oct 19, 2025 • Blessing Omakwu

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August 2025

God, on Mushrooms

Author’s Note: The Pivot Diaries was a series of personal essays about reinvention: leaving, burnout, faith, migration, healing, ambition, womanhood…

Aug 17, 2025 • Blessing Omakwu

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Jesus, Prozac, and Psilocybin

Author’s Note: The Pivot Diaries was a series of personal essays about reinvention: leaving, burnout, faith, migration, healing, ambition, womanhood…

Aug 3, 2025 • Blessing Omakwu

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June 2025

It's Not Our Magic (They Fail To See)

Author’s Note: The Pivot Diaries was a series of personal essays about reinvention: leaving, burnout, faith, migration, healing, ambition, womanhood…

Jun 8, 2025 • Blessing Omakwu

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May 2025

The Devil Wears Ankara

Author’s Note: The Pivot Diaries was a series of personal essays about reinvention: leaving, burnout, faith, migration, healing, ambition, womanhood…

May 18, 2025 • Blessing Omakwu

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This Is How You Burnout

Author’s Note: The Pivot Diaries was a series of personal essays about reinvention: leaving, burnout, faith, migration, healing, ambition, womanhood…

May 4, 2025 • Blessing Omakwu

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April 2025

Theology Of The Body

Author’s Note: The Pivot Diaries was a series of personal essays about reinvention: leaving, burnout, faith, migration, healing, ambition, womanhood…

Apr 27, 2025 • Blessing Omakwu

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