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The Butterfly Jungle Collection


Diriye Osman The Butterfly Jungle

Migil Bile is a confidently curvy, tea-spilling, super-bright, slightly-dizzy queer British-Somali journalist with schizoaffective disorder and sauce to spare. Ensconced deep in the drama of being a twenty-something, working-class South Londoner juggling one too many gig-economy jobs, wonky mental health and romantic wackness, he takes the unsuspecting reader on an existential meditation on immigration, Brexit, gentrification, sexual assault, the pitfalls of being a digital worker, what it's like when all your immediate family members are on the LGBT spectrum, and explores what constitutes community and kinship during a global pandemic.


Shot through with bombast and badassery, fusing Somali, Spanish, Kiswahili, patois, sheng and hip-hop slanguistics into a sex-drenched, fourth wall-smashing blend of poetry, letters, essayistic excursions and interlinked short stories, THE BUTTERFLY JUNGLE is a tour de force and Diriye Osman is a bad bitch/good-natured motherfucker who never takes mess (but doesn't mind splitting his lunch money with you.)


Ain't shit left to say.


Dig in, reader.


Diriye Osman The Butterfly Jungle

You can pre-order THE BUTTERFLY JUNGLE globally here: linktr.ee/DiriyeOsmanStudio


Song of the moment: 'Butterfly' by GRETCHEN PARLATO.



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