I Have to Let Her Be Seen

Eventually, You Have to Put Down the Shovel

Oct 4 • Nikyla Maria

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September 2026

Open the Fucking Door: On Female Emotion, Silence, and the Illusion of Emotional Control

"What a faithful little violence silence becomes."

Sep 13 • Nikyla Maria

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dirty feet, open heart, unfinished work

anyway, i’m here.

Sep 8 • Nikyla Maria

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August 2026

all that muscle going quiet.

on horses, good girls, and the trouble with being easy to hold

Aug 17 • Nikyla Maria

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the body remembers anyway.

There are truths I spent years trying to find language for and it wasn’t necessarily because I didn’t know they existed.

Aug 9 • Nikyla Maria

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Every Story Begins With Something Buried

There is a specific kind of violence in pretending you are small when you were born to build empires.

Aug 2 • Nikyla Maria

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July 2026

An Experiment in Trust

I was supposed to send you a brand new essay today.

Jul 27 • Nikyla Maria

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I Asked for My Humanity Back.

It’s here.

Jul 18 • Nikyla Maria

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what the moon took.

I don’t think the new moon asks us what we want.

Jul 14 • Nikyla Maria

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learning to let the sun touch me.

There is a sentence I have been carrying around in my body for days.

Jul 12 • Nikyla Maria

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Every Firework Hides a Basement

On the basement beneath the fireworks, America's mythology of freedom, and the world the feminine remembers.

Jul 4 • Nikyla Maria

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June 2026

fragments from the unbuilding

There are too many endings, too many beginnings, and no neat conclusions. Only this.

Jun 28 • Nikyla Maria

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