We all have an HIV story. This could have been mine. “Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of …
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My Woman Was Raped & I Love Her
Editor’s Note: I have spent the year rejecting the shame and secrecy that society told me to feel about my own story, and engaging with people and organisations that are standing up for rape victims and standing against victim blaming. I have met some wonderful men and women who have shared secrets, fears and shame …
Angry (Black) Woman
A man I know told me that he saw anger in my writing and ever since then I have been angry. I am in the midst of awakening the woman I have always been. She is angry. She is angry at the society that taught her to reach for anything and achieve everything, but judges …
“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 …
There. i said it. 