Gender & Feminism
What Does Political Progress Mean for Nigerian Women?
While many countries have successfully increased female representation in governance through legally binding quotas, Nigeria remains resistant, masking inaction with policy jargon and superficial interventions. Read More...
Feminist Self-Care Beyond Capitalism
From feminism to body positivity to mental health, self-care has become yet another concept commodified by capitalism. In a world that constantly thrives on profiting from women’s exhaustion, self-care must become a radical act of reclaiming control over one’s body, mind and soul. Read More...
Mayara Ferrão’s Blueprint for Decolonial AI Imagery
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. Read More...
On Being a ‘Feminist Human’ in an Anti-rights Era
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. Read More...
The Woman Who Married a Woman in Igboland
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? Read More...
The Restorative Genius of Zambian Women
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. Read More...
Being Pro-Women Is Not Anti-men
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. Read More...
A Queer Dream of New and Unassimilable Things
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. Read More...
The Semantics of Nigerian Misogyny
Nigeria is harming its women with its disregard for their rights and by promoting incel culture and gender-based hate crimes. Read More...
What the VAPP Act Repeal Means to Women, Activists and Survivors
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. Read More...
