Literary CriticismLLIDS • 2025
To Speak, Not to Speak, or How to Speak: Atypical Bodies and the Politics of Language
An exploration of how language constructs and constrains bodies that exist outside normative frameworks...
Poet • Essayist • Literary Critic
Exploring atypical bodies, silence, and the politics of language.
Damilola Oyedeji (Ariella) interrogates trauma, performance, and feminist narrative structures across creative nonfiction, poetry, and academic criticism.
Featured poem
Translocation in a Poem with Crossroads
Featured Publications
Selected essays, critiques, and poems from literary journals.
EssayLolwe • 2024
Panicky Little Things
A collection exploring anxiety, fear, and the small terrors that accumulate in the body...
