Growing up as the first born daughter in an African household has really made think that carrying the burden and taking the blame is a normal thing, because then you’re being “responsible”… but the truth is it’s not
sanitary pad ads have RUINED period care by convincing women that the periods means jumping, running, climbing mountains and working out heavily.
periods come with pain, fatigue, mood swings and discomfort and body needs REST.
pad absorbs BLOOD. It doesn't absorb the PAIN.
wrong.
she's honouring the fact that one of the earliest records of a successful C-section was performed in Uganda in 1879.
this is an homage to the brilliance of pre-colonial indigenous African medicinal practice, not a celebration of motherhood.
i hope you believe that you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you lost many years of it to grief, or darkness, depression, or a wound that wouldn’t close
White women killing their kids all over the US and white men killing their whole families and their kids shooting up schools .. but black people in the USA have the “violent race” stereotype???