Women in Politics, and The Case Against Akpabio Back in July 2024, Senator Natasha tried to clarify her position on a bill beyond the Aye/Nay Dichotomy of the Nigerian Senate and the lower chambers, and the response she got from Senate President Akpabio was “We’re not in a nightclub.” Let’s not mince words: Senate President, […]
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This week, a 14 year old Pakistani TikToker living in the west was lured back to Pakistan and unalived by her father and uncle. Her crime? She dared to be on tiktok!. But there are Pakistani boys residents in Pakistan who are active on TikTok and social media as a whole. Yet, nothing has or
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The recent reports of 150 female inmates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) being raped and burned to death are not just a tragedy – they are grotesque manifestations of the global pandemic of misogyny. This act of unspeakable violence is not an anomaly. It is the logical endpoint of a world that
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has long been celebrated for its staunch commitment to freedom of expression. Over the years, Great Ife students have vigilantly upheld this principle through steadfast resistance against any encroachments on their freedom of expression. With the growing and recurring stabs to the historical prestige of this great citadel of learning
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There’s an unspoken societal rule that asks for women to either be Madonna or a whore. I recently realized there’s actually a psychological theorem around it: The Madonna-whore complex. Generally, women are supposed to be prudes and therefore deserving of respect, or very sexually attractive/active and don’t inherently deserve respect. Women can’t be both
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This book contains raw passion, unfiltered anger, and a daring boldness at the gross injustice of enslaving women with their own bodies! Are you curious about anything related to abortion? Are you sexually active? Do you have a sense of justice? Do you hate being told what you can and cannot
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Special Ops: Lioness I stopped watching this movie because it’s just bullshit wrapped up as “feminism.” It’s liberal feminism plus US nationalist and capitalist propaganda. Femme fatale or using women to invade other countries, neo-colonise them and steal their resources under the guise of “protecting” those countries is nonsense. The US can’t even
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I will explain, as simple as possible, the difference between individualistic and systemic solution using myself as an example. I’m a feminist, a rad one at that, but the extent of its protection of me is still limited so much that it didn’t protect me from being harassed, or cat-called on the streets or
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If it were up to me, marriage would have been disbanded until we have proper policies/ laws to protect women. Earlier on, I was listening to a certain woman narrating how her ex husband chopped her hands off and almost burnt her to death. What really annoys me is the fact that she’s been seeking
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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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