For this article to be understood, we need to stand on the premise of ideologies shaping societal structures. And in this instance, I’d like to write about the ideology of patriarchy. An ideology doesn’t just affect one demography, it affects everybody. And that means there is patriarchy in everybody irrespective of their gender identity, and […]
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There was a friend I had in secondary school between JSS1 and JSS2. She was tall and definitely “did not look like a woman.” She looked very strong, sinewy, tough and would have been more muscular if she went to the gym. She was VERY fast on the field where we played during break time
I read about an Instagram model that was ready to file a lawsuit against Aubrey Drake Graham, a Canadian rapper, singer, and actor who allegedly had poured hot pepper in a condom after use to kill the sperm. She (the model) went to the bathroom to take some sperm for her use only to feel
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I desperately wanted to join a cult, any cult, in part one. I’ve had my share of unfairness and injustice but nobody or nothing else made me want to join a cult group as much as the woman who gave birth to me. I wanted to see her get the same treatment she meted
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Conversations around women’s bodies and the idea of the ‘perfect victim’. … Last week Sunday, a medical students’ association WhatsApp group I am on had a discussion about a video of a young woman who on dressing “indecently” was harassed by a group of men while one guy tried fending off her harassors and she
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I have kissed many frogs in my life and while kissing them, I didn’t even know they were frogs. I was genuinely not aware, I thought there weren’t anything else to kiss, asides frogs. I really didn’t know anything about boys because my grandmother asked me to stay away from them, at least until I
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Heterosexual men have been taught and learned to depend on women to help them express their emotions. Many of us are unable to feel emotionally alive except through relationships with women. Perfect breeding for codependency & one of the reasons patriarchy loves women submitting. We use women to validate our masculinity and that contributes
Let’s talk about Social Media and Feminism. If there is something Nigerian women should be grateful for, it is the ability to share our thoughts via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok. I mean, the chances that anybody harms you is next to nothing. You can be anonymous. Feminism in Nigeria gained momentum because of Social
Whenever I have money or sometimes even when I really don’t, I randomly give out; I ask the bike man to keep the change, I tell the child hawking in the hot sun to not bother about my change, the woman with so much kids trying to make ends meet by selling roasted corn gets
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