CALL FOR FEMINIST WRITERS! ✨🌟
FigureFeminists.com is excited to invite passionate feminist writers (irrespective of your gender identity) to contribute to our International Women’s Day initiative! We’re seeking critical commentaries (1500+ words) from a pro-sexual rights perspective on one of the following ten crucial topics (and each category attracts a #10,000 cash prize for the winner of the category and the prize will be given immediately your article is edited, approved and published).
Topic Focus: Explore the Sexual Rights of Women and Sex Workers’ Rights in Nigeria.
Submit your Word Doc file or Google Doc link to figurefeminists@gmail.com before February 3.
Check the attached flyer for more details!
We are calling for critical and passionate perspectives and commentaries responding to and arguing against the following social trends and mainstream thoughts:
1) Victim-Blaming in Nudes Leaks. Why punish the victim? The hypocrisy in condemning female students and celebrities instead of the perpetrators.
2) The ban on “indecent dressing” across campuses in Nigeria, especially those focused on the dressing of female students and other bans like this – https://www.gistreel.com/sexforgrades-uniport-bans-hugging-between-lecturers-and-female-students/ with arguments showing dressing codes won’t fix #SexForGrades.
3) The “I don go love Ashawo” hook of this song by King Rapsodi: https://www.voxnaija.com/king-rapsodi-i-don-go-love-ashawo/ with arguments expressing why sex workers deserve to be loved too.
4) The “You no fit sell your soul, but you fit sell your body” line in this January 2023 Lasisi Elenu’s skit: https://fb.watch/pziqYmfALg/?mibextid=j8LeHn with arguments drawing the clear line between internet fraudsters (yahoo boys) and hookup sex workers or online sex workers. Another example is the line from Lasisi Elenu’s Sinzu money Character “No be people dey do pornstar work, na me go first do fraudster?”
https://fb.watch/pFQlGlVC_w/?mibextid=v7YzmG
5) The mainstream belief that sex workers do not deserve respect just like other workers, because they are sex workers. For example, this post:
6) The common trend of male family members taking authority over the dressing or sexual freedom of their female family members. An example is this podcast with Brain Jotter, where he spoke about his influence over the dressing of his wife or daughter:
https://fb.watch/pFQoPiqzKw/?mibextid=v7YzmG
7) Loyalty pranks for women (scripted or not) that encourages violence against women as punishment for sexual infidelity in relationships. For example, this one by Flowerboy Comedy who is notorious for such pranks:
https://fb.watch/pFRc3kpTgX/?mibextid=v7YzmG
8) The common condemnation of porn and sex work on the basis that it has led to the degradation and death of women. Also arguing against the false equivalence between online porn and the porn industry, challenging the degradation narrative and debunking myths surrounding porn and sex work.
9) The common trend of police raiding brothels under the guise of looking for criminals, drugs or sex traffickers. Is a criminal hunt enough to justify the invasion of sex workers’ rights? Examples over the last year includes:
https://independent.ng/police-arrest-33-sex-workers-in-lagos-raid/
https://www.thecable.ng/police-raid-brothel-in-anambra-rescue-12-girls-used-for-prostitution
10) The religious and patriarchal condemnation of ‘hookup’ sex work as something that makes women deserve to be killed for money rituals, with arguments against that common social justification of the killing of sex workers by ritualists. See the following links for social media posts that inspire the need for this feminist response: https://www.facebook.com/100041666827727/posts/pfbid0mPvJUtDfU7gAbYzpiBNGD26gtHy5MMRXn3xaJoCBYjBoKENtYhTYHbpEf1vhMz6El/?mibextid=cr9u03
Note: You can Introduce other relevant examples to support your arguments, while sticking to the Nigerian context (including at least one of the examples already listed here).
Thank you.
