Everyday Feminism

Everyday Feminism highlights feminist issues which affect women daily. We are discussing everyday discrimination, everyday violence against women, everyday inequality of the sexes.

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Ivory Coast’s Véronique Tadjo Receives one of France’s Highest Honours

Veronique Tadjo is a writer, poet, artist and academic from Côte d’Ivoire whose impactful work earned her the Medal of Commander of Arts and Letters from the government of France, one of the country’s most prestigious national honours conferred on those who had “significantly contributed to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance.” The medal…

ByDocument WomenDecember 22, 20210Comments

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Is she really a witch?

Modern-day witch hunts are inspired by the same brand of ignorance and evil that fueled the burning of supposed witches at stakes in the early modern period. In one of our older articles, “The Sexist Rhetoric of Witch-Hunting”, we examine how the title “witch” has been and continues to be weaponised against women. These days,…

ByAtinuke FalaiyeDecember 17, 20210Comments

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How Do Women Really Feel About Christmas?

Christmas marks a time of festivity and merriment, a time for the family to bond, but for many women, it's that time of the year when the patriarchal divide is further emphasised. What is considered to be the best time of the year tends to be a point of stress for those who spend it…

ByAtinuke FalaiyeDecember 13, 20210Comments

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Is the new mother okay? A look into postpartum depression

The birth of a child can inspire an array of emotions; excitement, anxiety, happiness, fear and other such powerful feelings. Sometimes, the birth of a child can also trigger unexpected feelings and reactions, like depression. As many as 70-80% of women experience, at a minimum, the "baby blues" post-delivery. 10-20% of these women will develop…

ByAtinuke FalaiyeDecember 7, 20210Comments

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Black hair care and the 4c movement

The politicisation of women’s bodies, black women particularly; extends from stripping them of their reproductive rights and bodily autonomy to telling them the hair that grows out of their head is not good enough; not presentable and unfit for larger society. Hair discrimination is thinly-veiled racism that serves to assert white dominance and hegemony in…

ByAtinuke FalaiyeDecember 6, 20212Comments

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Feminist Coalition Reveals Girls Education Scholarship Program

On Tuesday, November 23rd 2021, the Feminist Coalition announced the commencement of the Girls Education Scholarship Program. This program offers full annual scholarships and mentorship for brilliant young girls from low-income backgrounds in Nigeria whose largest barrier to quality education is financial. The first recipients of this scholarship are 12 girls from Ogun state,…

ByDocument WomenNovember 29, 20210Comments

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How the beauty industry furthers desirability politics

Last week, Document Women covered “The Politics of Desirability”, examining how preferences do not exist in a void and are often influenced by society. This week, we will be discussing the impact the gargantuan beauty industry has on desirability politics. It should come as no surprise that the players in the beauty industry have a…

ByAtinuke FalaiyeNovember 29, 20210Comments

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Why Sex Work Should Be Legalised

Sex work is one of the oldest forms of labour, yet, it is still demonised today as it has been through history. The hatred of sex work is as rooted in misogyny as it is cultural, religious and traditional beliefs. The criminalisation of consensual sex work is morality policing on an institutional scale and this…

ByAtinuke FalaiyeNovember 23, 20211Comment

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The Politics of Desirability

“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older – know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning…

ByAtinuke FalaiyeNovember 16, 20210Comments

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Female contraceptives; protection but at what cost?

One of the glorious inventions of modern medicine is the various forms of contraception we have today. Unfortunately, these methods of contraception are almost exclusively targeted at women. While condoms and vasectomies are the only contraceptive procedures available to men, women have the options of the Oral Contraceptive Pill, Intrauterine Device (IUD), Contraceptive Implant, Contraceptive…

ByAtinuke FalaiyeNovember 15, 20210Comments

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