That anomalies exist means ‘gender=reproductive system’ isn’t as neat a definition as bioessentialists claim. It means that a woman may be someone who may have XX chromosomes but be missing core reproductive organs. It means it may someone who has some female internal organs but doesn’t have a vagina. It means it may be someone …
As a Nigerian, have you ever imagined a world where women asked for men’s hands in marriage and men were asked to stay at home and care for the children? As a male, have you ever imagined getting arrested for masturbating? What if you were living in an alternate universe where men acted women’s roles …
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Beauty standards are insane. Before we started keeping up with the Kardashians, Brazilian Butt Lift was not so popularised. I remember trying to do everything in my power to grow my butt. Like, I was busy doing squats and I can’t forget the day I almost fell in a banking hall because my thighs were …
An average number of ten thousand cases of rape occur every day in Nigeria only. While 5% sought help, just 3.8% got help. Most of these rape victims that AREN’T DEAD struggle with depression and other kinds of mental health related problems due to stigmatisation. Why are my emphasis on these numbers, you might want …
Among many people of Igbo land, there is a customary inheritance system called “Iri-ekpe”, a common practice among most Igbo communities with a central belief that a man is inherited at his death by his surviving male children. Where a man dies without marrying or is not survived by any son(s), his estate is inherited …
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It was shining that day before it suddenly began to rain. I hurried up with lightning the charcoal stove before I took it to the verandah behind our kitchen where I would soon cook a pot of vegetable soup. Inside me was a mixture of fear and disappointment: disappointment that it was raining in the …
Normally, I’m all love and light but I need to get something off my chest. Yesterday, I watched a movie that showed how conversion therapy ‘works‘. As a demisexual LGBTQIA+ ally, I found this movie very disturbing. I’d like to say a few things and correct a few ideas. And I would sound very …
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