Tenderness & Freedom

If a government says: we’ll give you free sanitary pads, it’s really saying: girls are important.

If dad tells jokes about dumb blondes and mum talks about herself in bad terms, then this language becomes normal for a girl

“Women suffer less from fever in COVID, but lose their sense of smell and taste more often. Women’s hearts are more sensitive to the coronavirus than men’s hearts. And their vessels are more fatigued.” 

Forced into sex work, Nigerian women hear from their torturers that terrible things will happen to their families if they do not obey and pay their “debt”. Thus, during the ritual with the use of their hair and blood, women undertake to remain silent. 

“I want to postpone the presentation to another date because today I have my period,” I would accept this argument with understanding