Opinion
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We Need To Talk About The Misogyny In The Queer Community
It’s 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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It’s Not Feminism They Hate, It’s 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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Policing Without Guns: Magnifying Slut-shaming in Nigerian X Space
In Nigerian digital spaces, moral policing has become naturalised, with many discourses centring on what a female can and can’t 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 isn’t happening in a vacuum. The problem isn’t that a woman expresses a preference for it. It’s that those words are not neutral. They…
