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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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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There should be the understanding that women don’t need to be nice, kind, decent, smart, strong, angelic, have each other’s back even, before we deserve equality. Women don’t have to love one another before we deserve equality, the fact that we are people is enough justification. We don’t have to prove anything. AT ALL. “Women
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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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Learn self-defense. Here we have a female soldier getting raped and locked in a casket and stripped naked and recorded. Have your own money, be popular, decenter men. Here we have Tiwa Savage still being recorded in a most vulnerable moment and for months, I watched her trying every means to get
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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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Aluta lubricant. I have NEVER heard this sexist insult in my life. You know where I came across it? I didn’t even see it among afamails. You would expect to see this among Shola’s Twitter circle but no, it was used in a Nigerian socialist circle! All because the woman in question
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First of all, I’ll open the floor by saying Simi’s WOMAN should blow more than it did and be getting awards upon awards but nah, it’s a patriarchal society and she herself “no be woman” by singing this song. How dare she? I was born in 1996 and I’m in my right to say
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THE SEVEN NECESSARY SINS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS. 1. ANGER: You must be very angry at patriarchy. 2. ATTENTION: Command attention, you deserve it. 3. PROFANITY: You should freely say “fuck.” 4. AMBITION: Take up space and own it. 5. POWER: Aspire to have it. 6. VIOLENCE: Do not hesitate to choose vawulence. 7. LUST:
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As an African woman and as a feminist, I’ve always been wary of Pan-Africanists and the reason being that many times, I have been tackled by these male Pan-Africanists telling me countless times that feminism is a western culture and I should stop spreading feminist ideas to corrupt “our women”. (Like women are their properties
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