I struggled to write this story. I thought that maybe if I used all the descriptive language I know, to paint a picture of how ugly the situation is, it might make flowers seem ugly. What a lie that would …
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“The drip is forever,” is for anyone with even the slightest interest in fashion and style, perhaps the most accurate justification for – forgive another internet phrase, “showing up and showing out.” A few years ago it was laughable that …
We are living in dangerous times physically – famine, poverty, climate change, shootings and permissive sexual violence in the catholic church. And many of us, in small and big ways, have decided to do our part in averting these external …
“how quiet can we make this woman? misogyny” ~ Ijeoma Umebinyuo I was a little shy of 18 when I got my first job outside home. I remember getting lost on the way to the interview, walking around in the …
On Valentine’s Day, a couple of friends and I sat down to watch ‘Set It Up’, a romantic comedy, because that’s not the cheesiest thing one might do on V-Day! In one of the scenes, the main character is stuck …
2019, like previous years, doesn’t seem to be starting on a kind note for Ugandan feminists. First, there was the proposal on February 6 by Godfrey Kiwanda, the State Minister for Tourism, to have “curvy womyn” as a tourist attraction. …
On January 31, 2019, 25 womxn gathered together in the expansive green gardens of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftungs Uganda office (thanks, FES!) to chat about intimate partner violence. This was the first, of many to follow, ‘intimate gatherings’ of womxn that Lakwena intends …
Ugandan hit web-series, Black No Sugar, just posted the final episode of this season. The show seeks to reach audiences through conscious, inclusive and balanced conversations for a majority youth audience.
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