🦜 Essays — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
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      On Good Literary Citizenship
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/on-good-literary-citizenship
      Published: September 22, 2025 16:36
      Author Suyi Davies Okungbowa on good literary citizenship: What makes one a 
good literary citizen is choosing a space to occupy and occupying it well.
    
  
    
      I Call Bullshit: Loving my students in the age of generative AI
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/i-call-bullshit-writing-loving-students-generative-ai
      Published: June 25, 2025 13:37
      I Call Bullshit: Essays on generative AI, a series of essays (by Suyi 
Davies Okungbowa) that consider the inadequacy of generative AI 
technologies to embody or replicate the facets of human endeavour that make 
language, communication and art as…
    
  
    
      I Call Bullshit: Writing lessons from my toddler in the age of generative AI
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/i-call-bullshit-writing-lessons-toddler-generative-ai
      Published: May 31, 2025 04:00
      I Call Bullshit: Essays on generative AI is a series of essays (by Suyi 
Davies Okungbowa) that consider the inadequacy of generative AI 
technologies to embody or replicate the facets of human endeavour that make 
language, communication and art as…
    
  
    
      Welcome to the Bad Timeline. Tips for living here.
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/welcome-to-the-bad-timeline
      Published: January 19, 2025 16:09
      You, whoever you are, have finally recognized the haunting manifest in your 
surroundings. Welcome. Here are some tips for living here.
    
  
    
      Maintain, at all costs, silence
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/maintain-at-all-costs-silence
      Published: September 28, 2024 13:20
      A critical look at institutions of power through the lens of Toni 
Morrison's 1995 essay, "Racism and Fascism".
    
  
    
      Against Performance
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/against-performance
      Published: September 2, 2024 14:01
      Suyi Davies Okungbowa writes about reconsidering his relationship with 
social media as an author, and why other authors may want to reconsider 
theirs.
    
  
    
      How to support your favourite authors—even if you can’t buy their books
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/support-authors
      Published: July 19, 2024 16:08
      How to support your favourite authors—even if you can't buy their books! 10 
ways by author Suyi Davies Okungbowa.
    
  
    
      How to launch a book
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/how-to-book-launch
      Published: June 23, 2024 16:02
      How to plan and execute your book launch event, with lessons from the 
launch of Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa.
    
  
    
      Who Benefits?
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/who-benefits
      Published: March 12, 2024 15:04
      Who benefits from the shape of our world?
    
  
    
      Oppression chic, equality-core
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/oppression-chic-equality-core
      Published: August 8, 2023 15:17
      Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses reading practices that de-emphasize 
authorial complicity, as viewed through the lens of the essay “The Limits 
of White Fantasy” from How To Read Now by Elaine Castillio.
    
  
    
      Writing Down the Barre
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/writing-down-the-barre
      Published: December 7, 2022 19:12
      A lesson in passion, patience and perseverance.
    
  
    
      Thanks, But We've Got One of Those
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/thanks-but-weve-got-one-of-those
      Published: December 7, 2022 18:51
      On submitting while African
    
  
    
      The Survival Game
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/the-survival-game
      Published: October 17, 2022 19:36
      Writing and publishing as the art of not drowning
    
  
    
      Supernature
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/supernature
      Published: October 17, 2022 19:04
      Finding healing and inspiration in nature.
    
  
    
      In Search of Speculative Archives
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/in-search-of-speculative-archives
      Published: August 16, 2022 17:09
      The places we go in search of information and inspiration
    
  
    
      Eighty percent not being a jerk
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/eighty-percent-not-being-a-jerk
      Published: July 19, 2022 23:28
      The 80/20 rule of surviving publishing, and other notes from Moose Jaw
    
  
    
      Learning to play with my left foot
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/learning-to-play-with-my-left-foot
      Published: July 18, 2022 12:22
      Plus: San Diego Comic-Con, The Boys, and the writings of Benjamin Percy
    
  
    
      The Caribbean Voice
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/the-caribbean-voice
      Published: June 29, 2022 16:52
      Beautifully distinct, worth preserving
    
  
    
      Africans in the Stratosphere
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/africans-in-the-stratosphere
      Published: May 31, 2022 15:35
      Piloting interplanetary vessels and discovering new worlds.
    
  
    
      Failures of imagination: In praise of historical inaccuracy
      https://suyidavies.com/essays/failures-of-imagination-in-praise-of-historical-inaccuracy
      Published: May 3, 2022 10:27
      Plus: A Snake Falls to Earth, Severance and Kevin Can F*** Himself