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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In France, the feminists here have fought for the right of women to not be judged or known by their marital status. The argument is that a man is always MR (Monsieur), and you don’t have to know whether they’re married or not. Why should women have to make their marital status known then? And
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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
MY FELLOW FEMINISTS, WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE WE DO? Read More »
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 never knew a day would come that I would ever feel something like pity or something invariably close to that emotion for a sexist but one day, I genuinely felt pity for one. You don’t need to know how I ended up in this guy’s apartment alright? We’d never met, it was
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