Growing up as a woman in Nigeria, one can almost guarantee that your first instance of slut-shaming came from within your family
Atinuke Falaiye
Historically, women have had to fight for the rights freely given to men. For black women, this struggle is double.
The treatment of women as secondary human beings is pervasive in all aspects of patriarchal societies like Nigeria. Everyday, mundane, unproblematic activities like renting an apartment (where there are no financial difficulties) should be relatively simple.
It is not sufficient to oppose the oppressive systems that bind us without considering all oppressive systems as, more often than not, these systems intertwine.
Our book of the month is “In her words”, a collection of stories by African feminist writers with the central theme of these women chronicling the problems they face and experiences they have had that continue to shape and drive their feminism.
Respectability politics posits that conformity to certain societal standards can protect a person, usually a member of a marginalised group, from the institutionalised oppression the demographic faces.
“Weight loss culture is rooted in fatphobia.” This simple statement triggered a discourse on Twitter that inspired, of course, more fatphobia.
Growing up as a dark-skinned girl child in Nigeria is a very traumatising experience unless, by some strange miracle, your parents and everyone you come in contact with is a progressive Nigerian.