Living Injustice is Obscene

I recently showed a video to some people I worked for. It was to commemorate International Women’s day. Since we were celebrating the occasion with the theme #BeBoldForChange, I thought nothing could…

#BOLDFORCHANGE

  I am writing for and to the womyn who are doing the work of educating; online, in classrooms, in their small groups, in big and small ways. This is for you…

Yellow Valentine

AfricanFeminism (AF) would like to share details of the #BeMyYellowValentine upcoming event created and sustained by the Yellow Movement team at Addis Ababa University (AAU). Share the love and support struggling  female…

"Male Pals" and Other Harmful Stereotypes

A Ugandan tabloid recently did a story ” exposing” a Ugandan journalist and his ” male pals”. Although the article did not outrightly accuse him of being gay, it made very blatant…

Eternal Happiness or Woe, I CHOOSE.

I find that pregnancy, delivery and recovery are nothing short of bewildering and overwhelming no matter how well prepared you think you are or the opportunities that are available to you. It…

We all win when media is gender aware

Photo by KAS Uganda By Rosebell Kagumire & Rebecca Rwakabukoza It’s not news that Uganda has a female-dominated population. In fact, the latest population census of 2014, puts the population of women…

Urban Unconscious

She saw him last night Taunting his other in road rage Swerved his anger to the right Blocking the passage to a new page As ” other” jumped out his unconscious skin…