Opinion
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We Need To Talk About The Misogyny In The Queer Community
Itās no news that wherever men find themselves, their stories and rights take precedence over women. This happens even in communities that have a history of marginalisation and oppression. When incidents like slavery occurred in…
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Itās Not Feminism They Hate, Itās the Feminists
When your presence becomes a provocation before your ideas are even heard. I walked into an advocacy space expecting what Audre Lorde calls a shared commitment to survival. Instead, the moment they found out I…
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āāPolicing Without Guns: Magnifying Slut-shaming in Nigerian X Space
āāIn Nigerian digital spaces, moral policing has become naturalised, with many discourses centring on what a female can and canāt do on social media. This is no different from colonial times, when women’s bodies were…
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Romanticising Submission Reinforces Patriarchy
The whole “I just want to be soft and submissive” thing isnāt happening in a vacuum. The problem isnāt that a woman expresses a preference for it. Itās that those words are not neutral.Ā They…
