Analysis
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Fave on the Price Women Pay to be Taken Seriously in Afrobeats
A woman can walk into the music industry with a voice, a song and an audience and still find herself being assessed for everything except the music. Is her stomach flat enough to fit the…
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Mali’s ‘Yes to FGM’ is Sold as Protection. It’s Control.
A coordinated social media campaign defending female genital mutilation (FGM) emerged across Malian platforms in August, days after a national NGO put up anti-FGM posters in Bamako. Anonymous accounts responded with their own images, which…
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Gloria Steinem: The Icon Who Forged Alliances with Black Feminists, Shaped Feminist Journalism
There is something slightly surreal about discovering Gloria Steinem through Mrs. America. In the FX miniseries, she appears in the middle of one of the most important political battles of 1970s America: the fight over…
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What Lindsay Clancy Case Reveals about Male Double Standards Against Women
A woman is accused of killing her three children during what her defence says was a severe psychiatric crisis, and because of that, the jury cannot reach a unanimous verdict. And somehow, thousands of miles…
