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  • Mother. Woman: Interrogating Identity Overlaps and Divergence
  • Miss, Ms., Mrs.
  • When is a Body deserving of having Violence visited upon it?
  • Uwa was raped and murdered in Church. Do you have any other questions?
  • She’s 15: Teenage girls are not objects of your perverse sexual fantasy
  • Thoughts

    When is a Body deserving of having Violence visited upon it?

    July 5, 2023

    I had a spirited conversation (read: argument) with my driving instructor and another student yesterday. No, it wasn’t about my reverse technique (which is atrocious, by the way. Wish me luck next class). What was it about, then? We were on the road doing a test-run when he suddenly blurted about a mad girl, followed quickly by a tirade of words. I was confused; “did something happen?” “Ahn ahn, didn’t you see that girl we just passed that her whole belly is outside and her short is barely covering anything?” I didn’t. I had been minding my business. So, I said, “Oh, I didn’t.” It would have ended there, but…

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  • Articles

    Uwa was raped and murdered in Church. Do you have any other questions?

    July 4, 2020

    When the Mirabel Centre launched the #JusticeForUwa campaign on the 31st of May in response to the violent rape and murder of 22 year old Uwaila Omozuwa at a Church in Benin, the fire spread quickly across the internet with many enraged at the incident and determined to pursue justice. Nigerians, home and abroad, lent their voices to the campaign and passionately asked for gaps they could stand in, to ensure that Uwa’s murderer doesn’t keep walking the streets after prematurely ending her life. We were still reeling from the all too familiar pain of that loss when we were hit across the face with another woman whose death in…

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    Seasons

    September 4, 2018

    The day after #16daysofActivism

    December 11, 2019

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    June 24, 2019
  • Articles

    She’s 15: Teenage girls are not objects of your perverse sexual fantasy

    April 13, 2020

    On Saturday, the 11th of April, Yul Edochie, a Nigerian actor, took to Twitter to celebrate his daughter on her 15th birthday. His message was innocuous, and one would expect, as in most situations where a person wishes their loved one a ‘happy birthday’ on social media, that others would join them in celebrating. The messages quickly took a disturbing turn when grown men inundated the comments by not only making sexually suggestive comments about this teenage girl’s body but also making remarks about her virginity or assumed lack of it. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I wasn’t. And that, knowing that this is a reality…

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    Call a thing by its name

    January 17, 2019

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    January 12, 2020

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    September 2, 2019
  • Articles

    Rape: Heightened Sexual Violence During Month of Love

    February 14, 2020

    In 2015, Soladoye Ige (not real name) was reported to have told the Police that he decided to rape his girlfriend as a celebration of Valentine’s Day. Why? Well, because she wouldn’t have sex with him. For him, sex was necessary as a symbol of the day’s significance so of course, why should it matter that she didn’t want any part of it especially since they had an established sexual relationship? Last year, in India, there was the case of a 24 year old man who raped his 18 year old friend on Valentine’s Day. According to the victim, they had only become friends a few months back and so…

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  • Articles

    Silence, and our culpability as a society in the culture of sexual abuse

    December 26, 2018

    BY TAWAKALIT KAREEM   Silence, That magic wand that we wave in the hope that what has been done can be undone. The inaction we exhibit to somehow dull the deafening crash that a certain action has caused. Silence is the tool that we have by ourselves, made a weapon in the hands of the abuser. Some people are of the opinion that the occurrence of abuse seems to have increased in recent times. I disagree. I think the difference in this day and time is; there is social media and the very real reality that a story can go viral in a matter of minutes. My friend, Adebola Aduwo,…

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    Seasons

    September 4, 2018

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    Call a thing by its name

    January 17, 2019

Tawakalit Kareem Jade

JADE

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