Sexual and Reproductive Rights: […] with the uncertainty of the restriction timelines, families need to spend more now to stockpile their essentials. Unemployment, dwindling finances, and uncertainty about the future, can literally create and harden the choice between cabbage vs. condoms.
Author: nwaami
My life matters.
My life matters: “Domestic violence is about power, access, and enablement – all of which men have disproportionately. Women are overwhelmingly the disempowered recipients of intimate partner violence. […]. Domestic violence is never okay, no matter the direction”
Anxiety
Anxiety: “For many, never before has work presented itself in this magnitude of both burden and luxury at the same time”
The Synchronized Double Burden
The Synchronized Double Burden: “[…] global lockdowns have undeniably tripled women’s workload in the household. However, novel COVID has not brought novel improvements in the division of labor, but is […] worsening gender inequality.”
Black Noise
An ode to the self awareness necessary for a life worth living, ‘Black Noise’ echoes the need to constantly look inward.
Black Girl Magic
Black Girl Magic is indeed powerful. In this post, we explore how we release some of that magic when we speak up and speak our truths, even when it feels terrifying.
I’m Still Me.
‘I’m still me’ reflects a woman’s struggle with identity loss. Using her name change as a metaphor, she walks us through her painful rebirth.
Mothers/Martyrs Day
Mothers/Martyr Day invites us to question whether we are celebrating women’s suffering as just what ‘Motherhood’ is.
The Contentious Manifesto
Let’s discuss what we are taking for granted when we adopt choice feminism.
Lest we forget…
Inequity of genders cannot co-exist with true independence.
