My daughter wants to be a princess. She likes Disney’s Queen Elsa. She is four years old. This morning she was singing ” let it go†at the top of her lungs.…
In my perspective, the conversations and interventions to promote gender equality in Ethiopia have focused heavily on women. Therefore a natural inclination has been to assign gender issues as ‘women’s issues’.…
Stories for Human Rights and Social Inclusion is a platform where human interest stories are told to raise awareness about social injustices that affect communities and expose human rights violations in Uganda.…
Last week was International Women’s Day. As usual, events were held to celebrate women and discuss how far we’ve come and what needs to be improved on. My country-Nigeria was no…
I have drafted this piece three times. Each time I delete it because of how difficult it is and because I constantly feel like I lack the right words to explain what…
This post wasn’t supposed to be what it is now. I was meaning to write something like Reflections at 40 or something to that effect. Since I will be turning 40 this…
Resource and capital have been redefined over the past few decades; in the age of hunter and gatherer societies or the industrial age, quick response, assertiveness and strict authoritative relationships made sense.…
January 20th has become a day when women come together to advocate for transformative social change, initially started in protest of the then-newly elected President Donald Trump and anti rights wave taking…
I like to see or think of myself as an out-going, confident and goal-oriented 30 something year old. Many a times, I get that question ‘are you married?’ Better yet, when I…
A small rectangular mirror stands on the stool next to my bed. Stained. Ordinary. Cheap, it must have cost no more than 100 shillings. There is nothing extra-ordinary about it.…