Different people bring out different aspects of us. Everyone has the potential to be toxic pending on context. This explains why two people are better as...
We have heard of how we (women) are encouraged to tighten our vaginas via steaming. From the requirements (ingredients) and procedure, it would seem as though...
Over time, I have had different conversations with homophobic people. Their homophobia is valid, because they do not understand what it means when people have a...
Men are such wonderful beings! For those of us who date men: do you wake up at night to stare at the man you are sleeping...
January is like THAT guest who overstays his/her welcome, and I’m just so happy it is over. It reminds me of Hans Christian Andersen, author of...
Whatsapp, a.k.a Wasop or Wazzap or Wosap, is a lovely platform that heightens interactivity. Don’t you just love how people you gave your number start texting...
There were so many lessons learnt in 2017! Aside experiences with people and situations, reading and a little bit of travelling have contributed to my education...
Other than poor electricity, unfortunate roads, and a lousy government that delights in playing politics at the expense governing the masses, there are other problems that...
Gender roles have made female subjugation a cultural universal. A cultural universal is a trait or element different human societies (cultures) have in common. Most cultures...
Madness deludes itself with the notion of its sanity, because it has not taken off its clothes to run into the street. The world is a...
At a restaurant, someone said, “I support feminism, but I don’t want anyone to call me a feminist. You can call me an egalitarianist, just not...
They thought we were like our mothers: they never saw us coming. We are the expression of the suppressed aspects of our mothers – sexually, physically,...
Lately, I have had conversations about family with people, and one thing I have come to realise is this: “Family, as it is, is overrated”. Sounds...
One Sunday morning, while talking with a dear friend, she told me someone was “preaching” to her about going to church. “You have to make out...
Dear Uncle, Living your truth is hard, I know; however, can you not throw lies at our faces? You are mutating into a tacky joke. Maybe...
Scenario One You saw the advert on social media: “Receptionist needed. Must speak fluently, be light-skinned…” Before you could stop yourself, you stretched your arm forward...
Last time I was with a dear friend, I told him, “I want a patriarch, a benevolent misogynist. You that is a feminist, who you epp?”...
“If Celie were singing, she would be like Mamie, Bessie, and Ma Rainey, all of whom were abused. Those women were abused by men. (…) And...
October 13, 2015 Dear Diary, I don’t understand what is happening anymore. Ever since I let Udoka, my friend, come and share apartment with me, I...
My weekend was a hit! I was in the company of five amazing women, and from our discussions, I learnt many things. Two of them are: There...
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