Relationship status: single. If I am honest, this is more of a problem for other people than it is for me. I can’t understand why these men don’t see how wonderful my daughter is. I’ve been thinking about that sentence ever since my mother casually dropped it into our conversation a few weeks ago. In …
Category Archives: women’s rights
“I Will Become A Straight Girl”
Originally posted on Is This Africa?, I wrote a discussion about “Corrective Rape”, an act unworthy of the human race: “I Will Become A Straight Girl”
LOVE > Fear
Disclaimer: This will be an incomplete work. I have always been able to start, but never to finish this particular story… But that never stops me from trying again. LOVE > fear “You’re the one I’ll compare all the others to…” – “Be My Only” by FM Radio Any story about love that I tell …
FEMALE + BLACK: A Developing Story
I have been going through a fascinating internal journey of self exploration; who knew that it would take the death of an American 17 year old to expose my own ignorance about the way my skin has coloured how the world views me? Who could have foretold that an inexplicably brutal attack on an Indian bus could awaken my …
‘Sup?
The media sucks. There. I said it. I started this site because the media is letting us down. They’re distilling every issue to the lowest common denominator and squandering influence for ratings. In the process, I probably haven’t heard an honest national (and international) discussion about anything important in my lifetime. Thank God for the internet. Join …
There. i said it. 