Shut down the streets because they aren’t safe for Namibian girls, women and gender diverse persons. Shut down the streets because those are the roads from which women are abducted and go…
For the feminist archive Let the record reflect. Reflections on the Chief Justice of Kenya’s Advisory on the Dissolution of Parliament You would have us forget, you would have us make it…
Two weeks ago, I attended a much-needed R and R session with some powerful feminist sisters, R and R here, meaning Rethink and Re-Energize. The theme for this session centred around body…
It feels like you have been in a constant state of dreams and illusions. The lines in the sand have gotten blurry. You can’t tell what’s real or where figments of your…
On September 4, Lebanon’s caretaker Minister of Labour announced that new system had been finalised which would be a major game-changer in the labour migrant-employer relations. The Standard Unified Contract (SUC), she…
Anti-blackness has been defined by scholars referring to a global system rooted in the dehumanization of black bodies. It is what it means to be in a world where black people are…
Every year, August 19 marks World Humanitarian Day. I have always celebrated the “do-gooders” devoted to “protecting the lives of all humanity by any means necessary”. I always basked in awe and…
Emily is a 20-year-old woman who I met in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi last year. I was there to film a documentary on the western import of homophobia. While there, my crew and…
A recent conversation that Black Women Radicals created, a space that featured some of my all-time fave African radical feminists like Jessica Horn, Rosebell Kagumire and new faves Blessol Gathoni, Kinna Likimani,…
Four months ago, amidst lockdown and trying to avert suicide attempts situations in my volunteerism work, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This diagnosis happened by chance; I was at the time…