Anick 🥸

No big deal, just my face on signs around the UK!!

Corruption rarely announces itself. It dresses as innovation. Greed rarely looks monstrous. It often becomes marketed as aspiration or growth.

If a system rewards harm and calls it success, perhaps the illusion is not laziness. Perhaps the illusion is meritocracy itself.

Addiction. Abuse. Exploitation. Entire fortunes built on other people’s pain.

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We spend a lot of our lives being “sorted” by ideas of sex and gender. My essay is not a hot take or a manifesto. It is my experience that gender is a chaotic, multi-layered mess. And how embodiment still matters even when identity shifts. anickwrites.medium.com/gender-everywh…

4/ One of the ideas I explore is the “gender see saw”. In many queer relationships, when one person leans into softness or campness, the other quietly stiffens into “the man”. No one agrees to it. It just happens in the space between you.

9/ The essay does not offer a neat “how to fix your masculinity” guide. Instead, it sits with questions like: •How do we honour our genuine preferences without turning them into hierarchies of worth? • How do we notice our snap judgements without letting them drive the car?

12/ If any of this resonates, or irritates you in a way that feels interesting, I would love you to read the full essay and share it with someone who thinks about this stuff too. 🔗 Too Gay, Not Man Enough? Rethinking Masculinity as a Brown Intersex Man anickwrites.medium.com/too-gay-not-ma…

11/ Masculinity, for me, is no longer a test to pass. It is a set of questions I am learning to ask with more care: Where did my ideas of “too much” or “not enough” come from? Whose safety were they protecting? Whose freedom did they limit?

1/ “Too gay.” “Not man enough.” I wrote a new essay about the quiet moments where those phrases still flicker through my mind, even though I know better. It is about masculinity, queerness, race, and the shame that lives under our politics. 🔗 anickwrites.medium.com/too-gay-not-ma…

Wrote an essay at 6am about why daddy culture needs to die. On ⁦@Grindr⁩ I’ve fielded countless messages from men twice my age. Respectful, entitled, complicated. Not all queer relationships need to be sexual. 👉 anickwrites.medium.com/why-daddy-cult… anickwrites.medium.com/why-daddy-cult…

The Complexity of Non-Binary Identities, a piece about the metaphors we reach for when language fails, the weight of visibility, and why my gender is more like a pizza than a pronoun. 🍕✨ Read here: anickwrites.medium.com/the-complexity…

#Thread 🧵1/ I just published a new piece: The Complexity of Non‑Binary Identities. It’s 12 minutes of unpacking how we live in bodies that resist tidy categories, and how being asked to explain is often missing the point. anickwrites.medium.com/the-complexity…