As a male feminist, I recently read a question that says that “How are working-class men part of patriarchy when they don’t hold institutional power?” with a mixed emotions of warmth and weariness. Warmth, because it is a question I have always hoped to find a final answer to. Weariness, because I always feared the […]
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What happens when the school girl finds her voice, particularly in an environment that says: It doesn’t matter what you studied. You’re a girl? Shout fire! Instead of rape! As a law student, I found my voice when I confronted the discrimination permeating societal values often backed by customary laws. It was in that
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These are some (Feminist) books you can read as a feminist, an ally, an activist, a socialist and as just a random person who wants to understand the hell that’s going on in our world. FEMINISM FOR THE 99%, A MANIFESTO Three women wrote this book together and my first reaction was chuckling
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In Nigeria, health now is a person thrown like a dice- The cheers of onlookers hang by a single thread Synced with a plea to the gods for a six Preferably a double six Just to win , to make one-half chance to live But the gods are long dead. Their rounded bellies lay
Still as death, lying under trees, Inverted, where I find my ease. Flit-flutter, my pinions beat swift and low, Flying ’round the luminous sky, Time now for a slumberous sigh. Lanky, a vampiric form I seem, Release my hand and hear my dream. Flapping wild above the sky, Not as hard as rocks on
..Being silent about myself Because Hope is an irony And the future is a metaphor compared to ephemerality. I am paradox, a very futile euphemism called a special one, a special foreshadowing. My name is praised with Euphony but my realization is cacophony. Thought my life would rhyme like Alliteration, or assonance but it’s parataxis;
Date: May 21st, 2025. Venue: FIGURE Workspace and Bookspace The session began in earnest a few minutes after 5pm. The event was moderated by IBK while Hairat served as the co-moderator. IBK introduced the space as a place where individuals are encouraged to develop themselves with the books available and a place for
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A child, they said, was born so free, Yet freedom’s touch he’d never see. No tears to shed, already marked, A name bestowed, a life embarked. An identity he cannot claim, A silent voice, a hidden flame. If only names were all they chose, But paths and dreams, they too impose. A future
There is this stereotypic and patriarchal view of the fear or demeaning interpretation of the participation of young women in politics. This view has generationally been the bedrock of the sociopolitical subjugation of women in matters that affect them as much as the men in the society. Historically, the woman has been through numerous restrictions,
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