Gender & Feminism
You Are Still with Me
In Kenya, three young queer men built a family from stolen kisses, cheap alcohol, and poetry read aloud on thin mattresses, until the world that refused to make space for them claimed two of their lives. Read More...
Driving Through Life as a Fully Veiled Muslim Woman
Mutia’ah Badrudeen documents how her decades of driving, as a fully veiled Muslim Yoruba woman across multiple countries, reveal prevailing social ideas about gender, identity and belonging. Read More...
How ‘Defending African Values’ Masks a New Colonization
The Christian supremacist groups defending ‘African family values’ are heirs of the forces that destroyed Africa’s traditions of gender diversity, communal kinship and spiritual practices. Their campaigns today are not a defence of culture, family or sovereignty, but a second wave of colonization. Read More...
In Nigeria, to Err Is Human, Unless You Are Poor or a Woman
Untruth, injustice and the Nigerian way. A lesson in the difference between a ‘human’ connected Nigerian man and the everyday Nigerian/woman as reflected in the Ibom Air and Comfort Emmanson debacle. Read More...
The Body, the Veil and the Muslim Woman
Halimatu Iddrisu paints Muslim women and their voices. She entrusts their faceless bodies with self-expression and the freedom to engage viewers in a dialogue about dressing choices and the hijab—veiling in Islam—that transcends language. Read More...
Reimagining Sacrifice Through an African Feminist Diaspora
What if our grandmothers’ sacrifices were not about submission, but about survival and resistance? When we reframe the legacy of Black women’s ‘sacrifice’ across the African diaspora, from Africa to the Americas and to the Caribbean, it becomes strategic refusal and creative world-making that invites us to see how feminism travels across borders and generations. Read More...
How Nigerian Loan Providers Marginalize Women
Young women, like most women in Nigeria, struggle to access credit. Expanding financial equity will require simpler systems, cultural change and support for women to take informed financial risks and build economic power. Read More...
The Akpoti-Uduaghan Playbook on Resistance Against All Odds
What does it mean to be a Nigerian woman fighting against the establishment? When Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended for speaking out against sexual harassment, she inadvertently began to create a blueprint for resistance against seemingly insurmountable odds, where refusal itself can be a form of victory. Read More...
Is Feminism Compatible With Religion?
Both Christianity and Islam have doctrines that highlight the supremacy of men over women, raising the question of whether it is possible to be a religious feminist. Read More...
Queer People Today, You Tomorrow
Every Nigerian is one state decision away from becoming ‘unworthy’ subjects. Yet many Nigerians celebrate when the state punishes queer people not realizing that what is being witnessed is the state testing and perfecting its technologies of removal. Read More...
