From Ideology to Protest: Essays on Gender and Feminism

Mayara Ferrão’s Blueprint for Decolonial AI Imagery

Jamila PereiraMarch 9, 2025

No stranger to the tensions underlying the usage of AI in visual art, Mayara Ferrão is at the forefront of a bold artistic revolution, exploring how artists can use AI to challenge the biases entrenched in mainstream imagery. Through her lens, feminist and queer aesthetics dismantle patriarchal narratives, reimagining identity and inclusion in a rapidly digitizing world.

February/March 2025

On Being a ‘Feminist Human’ in an Anti-rights Era

Ololade FaniyiMarch 2, 2025

In an era of accelerating anti-rights movements, our feminist liberation depends not on narrowing the gates of belonging, but on dismantling the very logic of exclusion that has been weaponized against all women.

February/March 2025Nigeria

The Woman Who Married a Woman in Igboland

Emmanuel AzubuikeFebruary 21, 2025

In a culture that reveres procreation, and where boys are considered more valuable than girls, what happens when a woman marries another woman to fulfil her societal obligation of childbearing?

February/March 2025Nigeriavol9-no1

The Restorative Genius of Zambian Women

Mwinji SiameFebruary 9, 2025

Zambian women are pioneering a new museum culture that is revolutionizing cultural preservation through a fusion of digital technology and indigenous knowledge systems, challenging Western colonial institutions’ claims to being rightful custodians of African heritage.

February/March 2025Zambia

Being Pro-Women Is Not Anti-men

Viggie OkeFebruary 2, 2025

Why are boys’ issues often used to derail the conversation when issues affecting girls are raised? Until men recognize that our true battle is against patriarchy and not feminism, we will remain stuck, unable to achieve meaningful progress.

February/March 2025Nigeria

A Queer Dream of New and Unassimilable Things

Ololade FaniyiFebruary 2, 2025

As the rest of the world watches the exodus of American users from TikTok to RedNote, it reveals a telling paradox: Western claims to digital freedom depend on portraying contexts like Africa and Asia as uniquely hostile repressive Others, while masking their own suppression of queer expression—a power dynamic that the Global South has long been co-opted to maintain.

February/March 2025Nigeria

The Semantics of Nigerian Misogyny

Gabriella OparaNovember 10, 2024

Nigeria is harming its women with its disregard for their rights and by promoting incel culture and gender-based hate crimes.

Best of 2024: EssaysNigeriaOctober/November 2024

What the VAPP Act Repeal Means to Women, Activists and Survivors

Esohe IyareNovember 10, 2024

On 9 July 2024, a bill to repeal and reenact the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act passed its second reading at the National House of Assembly. Nigerian women analyze this Bill through personal and collective histories on what it could mean for the fight against gender-based violence.

NigeriaOctober/November 2024

Are You Laughing With Us or at Us?

Ugochukwu Damian OkparaOctober 19, 2024

When I think of the growing trend of social media skits featuring male comedians who dress up as women, I think especially of the dehumanization of women and everyone who lives outside the rigid ends of the gender spectrum. Should a line be drawn on these performances? Or should we be increasingly unsettled?

Best of 2024: EssaysNigeriaOctober/November 2024

Madam Has Interest

Ololade FaniyiSeptember 29, 2024

Despite their purported mission of advancing women’s interests, in Nigeria, institutionalized structures such as the first lady’s office and the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, more often reinforce than challenge patriarchal norms.

August/September 2024Best of 2024: EssaysNigeria