The Butterfly Jungle

<p><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p>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 motherf*cker who never takes mess (but doesn't mind splitting his lunch money with you.)</p><p><br></p><p>Ain't sh*t left to say.</p><p><br></p><p>Dig in reader.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Diriye Osman is a British-Somali author visual artist critic and essayist based in London. </p><p><br></p><p>He lives on a diet of Disney cartoons graphic novels masala chai and Missy Elliott records.</p>