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Back to Mud: The Decolonial Architecture Movement Reimagining African Public Spaces
The exercise of visualizing modernity in cities often leads one to picture skyscrapers, grandiose bridges, and urban housing developments...
Aug 249 min read
A Look at Kenya’s Rising Femicide Epidemic: Tragedy, Anger, and Calls for Change
The 2023 Global Femicide Report, released jointly by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, recorded a staggering...
Jan 136 min read
Human War, Female Battlefields: War’s Toll on Women
Among the many lessons that the genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has exposed us to, a poignant one is the realization that...
Apr 17, 20244 min read
Individual And Corporate Responsibility In Genocidal Times
Over the last three months, we have borne witness to Palestinian men carrying the shredded pieces of their relatives’ bodies with their...
Dec 29, 20235 min read
Women’s Bodies: The World’s Hidden Commodity
In 2007, a Dolce & Gabbana advert was released depicting a woman being pinned-down by an oily, shirtless man while four other men looked...
Aug 31, 20233 min read
Born Unequal: Passport Privilege And Freedom Of Movement
In 2022, Ferdinand Omanyala, 26 — also known as Africa’s fastest man — secured his U.S. visa a mere 24 hours before the start of his...
Apr 29, 20233 min read
Mr & Mrs: How The Patriarchy Lives In Our Language
For the patriarchy to exist at all, it must exist not only in how we think of and structure the societies we live in, but first in how we...
Dec 16, 20223 min read
Falling Reproductive Rights: A Sign Of An Era Of Regressing Women’s Rights
Among all the rights and liberties righteously afforded to an individual within a given society, none survive without the unconditional...
Aug 28, 20223 min read
The Personal Is Political. The Political Is Personal.
Shadowing the interconnected nature of happenings in the political sphere and those in one’s personal sphere of life has been a...
Mar 30, 20222 min read
What The Orgasm Gap Tells Us About Heterosexual Intercourse
Our cultural scripts for heterosexual intercourse are acquired from the intricate process of socialization that molds us into the beings...
Dec 2, 20213 min read
Rape As A Weapon Of War
A single act of sexual violence already represents an atrocity so deep that it becomes virtually impossible to think about it existing in...
Aug 5, 20213 min read
The Invisible 10.9 Trillion Dollar Industry
At the forefront of the collective of social norms that inform how a woman is to move through society is a deeply embedded expectation of...
Jun 11, 20212 min read
Rigid Masculinity: A War We Do Not Speak Of
Patriarchy, a system in which men hold the social power, is deeply ingenious for letting us believe that its means for fighting a war on...
Apr 30, 20213 min read
An Elegy To Womanhood
In her 2020 memoir, Untamed, author Glennon Doyle speaks of the profound martyrdom that women endure through motherhood. She talks of...
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Virginity: The Myth We Didn’t Know We Were Living
A defining feature of the effort to control women’s sexuality is its ability to birth traditions, cultural practices, and religious...
Feb 15, 20213 min read
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