Steff Fleur

it wasn’t even pretty. because when you stop running, everything you’ve been running from catches up. the insecurities. the old narratives. the fear that if you stop trying, you’ll become unlovable.

To reclaim weird is also to know what it isn’t. It is not a performative, desperate attempt to be different in order to forcefully grab attention. It is an attunement to authenticity - the art of discovering our own true texture and daring to share it. This is lifelong work. Work that takes time and space, trial and error, courage, curiosity, and... See more

None of us are easy to be with. Not in the long run. Not when the days get quieter and the masks start slipping.

there’s a strange ache that comes with outgrowing a version of your life that you worked hard to create. it’s the kind of feeling that doesn’t announce itself as grief but hums in the background of your daily routine — in the moments when the things that used to feel important start to feel hollow,

Another definite reason so many people seek the troubled social status of “creative” these days is because it’s easier than ever to become one. The democratization of this pursuit is, on one hand, a beautiful thing.

The traditional Iban view believed that this world ( dunya tu ) is separated from, and yet influenced by events and by actions of “beings” in a series of inter-connected unseen realms.

On 15 September 1958 the colonial government inaugurated the Borneo Literature Bureau (Tawai 1997: 6).