Gender & Feminism
“Stop Killing Us!” South Africa's Plague of Masculine Violence
It is almost impossible to live in South Africa and be unaffected by prejudice; masculine violence in South Africa is a weaponization of this prejudice. Read More...
Lionhearts The Artistic Novelty of Nigerian Women Directors
With directors like Kemi Adetiba and Genevieve Nnaji, women telling women’s stories is the saving grace that Nollywood never knew it needed. Read More...
When We Talk of Freedom Hijabs, Respectability and What it Actually Means to be Free
Oppression does not exist in a vacuum. It exists to serve the demarcation between the superior and the inferior, no matter how faulty such a demarcation is. And the demarcation there was a piece of clothing, a veil. Read More...
Siblinghood and the Psychology of Trauma Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer uses the expansiveness of the prose form to ask, ‘how far can we go for people we love?’ Read More...
Long Live the Children of Disobedience Patriarchy and the Limits of Feminism’s Transformative Power
Feminism’s transformative power is one Nigeria greatly needs; and as Nigeria's feminist movement grows, its adherents show no interests in being respectable. Read More...
Sexuality in the Twenty-first Century Looking through Nigerian Lenses
In Nigeria, sexuality rarely emerges in the realm of public debate or analysis, leaving the topic stuck in the periphery of historical discussions. Read More...
The Power of Social Media Nigeria's Changing Feminist Movement
Like everywhere else, feminists in Nigeria are increasingly relying on social media to organize movements, protest, inform and reform society. Read More...
From Glamour Girls to Nolly Babes Nollywood Nostalgia and the Modern Nigerian Woman
Social media feeds featuring compelling visuals of old Nollywood are increasingly becoming sources of inspiration for female artists in Nigeria. Read More...
What is Feminism? Feminism, by the Book
s early as 1808, Francois Marie Charles Fourier, a strange and brilliant utopian socialist and philosopher, preached that... Read More...
Reading Feminism What to Read on Feminism
What better time than now to start to engage—or re-engage—with feminism? Here's what to read on the movement. Read More...
