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Onyango Otieno 🌻🇰🇪
@Rixpoet
Narrative Practitioner. Bridging research & lived experience on afro-masculinities, mental health & SRHR. Author: Leaving Is Love Too.
Nairobi, KENYA
Born June 15, 1988
Joined May 2012
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    When I was depressed & suicidal in 2017, my close male friends would come home to keep me company. They'd do my laundry, my dishes, wash my house and open the curtains for me. None even knew what depression was, but they knew I was down and needed help. Their love lifted me.
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    The best gift I got from this experience was the love of my friends. Some even came from far to bring me food. Many of those friendships were people I'd known for a number of years. I learned that communities are the oil that really sustains us. Love heals.
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    I would later get into therapy for the first time in my life. And I met terms like anxiety and PTSD. Finding a language for my pain was liberating. I'd gravely suffered for 15 years trying to understand myself. Finally, I had hope of having a life. Never looked back since.
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    Here we are excluding one person who wasn't around. 😊😊🌸
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    “We cannot continue to be ruled like this; by sick people. By mad people. Liars and thieves and criminals. These are the people who are in power in Kenya.” - @Juliuskamau21 #RutoMustGo
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    And this is us in 2012 when they were tricking me to get into the ocean because I feared water and didn't know how to swim. 😅
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    Me today. A man who's been loved and has dedicated his life to helping others heal from deep rooted traumas. Because I really want everyone to feel this peace that I'm feeling. We all deserve it. A story at a time. 🌻🌸🌼
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    My father kicked my mum out of our family business. He wanted to control the money. And yet it was my mum’s ideas to begin the school; which he initially was opposed to. He at the time, wanted to buy a car. (thread)
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    This is why I share my stories. When we share we liberate each other and the generations to come. We also heal our lineages. 💙💙🌻
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    One of the most dangerous things patriarchy teaches men is that they’re automatically smarter than women just for being men. 🤮
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    Rigathi says extrajudicial killings will never happen again. His boss says they’ve never happened. We see you. 😂
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    I also work with sexually abused boys and men by holding therapy and healing circles for them. Please donate what you can so I may reach more men. Kindly share as well. Thank you! 🌸🌸
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    It’s funny coz even when I fundraise to take sexually abused boys and men to therapy it’s women who contribute the most. So…🤷🏿‍♂️