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sukayo (noun): A totalizing state of internal and external dystopia marked by alienation, despair, repression, sexual and political frustration, and the intuitive sense of living inside an inescapable, malignant system.
Sukayo includes not only the experience of this condition but also the inability to articulate it, the sense that language itself is complicit in concealing it. Like standing on an island that turns out to be a living monster, Sukayo is the dread of realizing the foundation of your reality is hostile.
Sukayo includes not only the experience of this condition but also the inability to articulate it, the sense that language itself is complicit in concealing it. Like standing on an island that turns out to be a living monster, Sukayo is the dread of realizing the foundation of your reality is hostile.
“After years of isolation, bad‑faith accusations, and endless news cycles of war, she fell into Sukayo, a state where even her own words betrayed her.”
“I didn’t know what was wrong with me for years. Turns out I was deep in Sukayo.”
“The media says everything’s fine. My bank account says otherwise. This is Sukayo.”
“I didn’t know what was wrong with me for years. Turns out I was deep in Sukayo.”
“The media says everything’s fine. My bank account says otherwise. This is Sukayo.”
by if so maybe so October 2, 2025
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