Articles on Women’s Empowerment
Accessibility to Menstrual Hygiene facilities: A Human Right or a Privilege?
Menstruation is a natural phenomenon for women in their reproductive ages. It involves the shedding of the uterine tissues through vaginal bleeding. Although it varies from women, a typical period…
How our Ableist Society is making Women with Disabilities More Vulnerable
What's Happening? Disabled people in Rwanda are usually excluded from society. Looking at the grand schemes of things, one would suggest that society just doesn't understand what disability is and…
The Politics of Hair
Image: Twitter Your hair is not just hair. Then what is it? You might wonder. Hair has always had a significance socially, culturally, and even religiously for hundreds of years…
Does Womanhood and Ambition Really Exist in Nigeria?
( McKeown, 2020) “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be…
The Tale of Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda
The Tale of women empowerment in Rwanda "Women and men are equal in terms of ability and dignity, and they should also be equal in terms of opportunities. As Rwandans,…
‘One City, Two Tales’
“when you take it upon yourself to politicise human bodies & the right to keep breathing, without paying a steep price for it, don’t pretend to be shocked when we…
“Everything is sex… Except sex; which is power, and power is just sex” -Janelle Monae.
Inspired by Janelle Monae’s song Screwed from the album Dirty Computer. Let's start this off with a Gender inequality. A report by the World Economic Forum estimates that at the…
How Social Media is helping Female Consumers hold Corporations Accountable.
What do Always sanitary products, X-pression braids, Thinx period-proof underwear, and DevaCurl have in common? While the uses of these products are as different from each other as day is…
Corona Virus crisis: Domestic violence during lock down
In the wake of the global pandemic, Covid-19, people found themselves confined within their homes for safety. Lock down has proven to be a tough time for many, it also…
Queer Ecological Feminism; my perspective.
Through watching Queer Eye on Netflix, I took notice of the role intersectionality plays - how a minority group combine effort to help uplift people's lives. The show's concept demonstrates the interconnectedness…