Cynthia quetzalcoatl

Unapologetic feminist,agnostic,book lover

[Palm Tree 🌴 @6footBarefoot]

Bring back HIV ads and don't make them nonsensical like the chukua selfie one. Make them real like "Wachana na mpango wa Kando."
"Tumechill."
"Ukifreak bila sox..."
Don't sugarcoat STDs. Play Tuju's documentary on prime time... @nsdcc_kenya wake up!!

[Maandamano Hottie 🇵🇸 @_omalicha__]

It’s so sad that women being in pain is so normal that pain free periods are seen as abnormal while it should be baseline. Never had a cramp my entire life and there’s nothing “special” I do before my period for this to be the case, not even a diet change.

[Africa Uncensored @AfUncensored]

Rose is a 21-year-old woman who was struck by a stray bullet while heading home during the June 25th 2025 protests in Kenya.

She wasn't demonstrating; she simply found herself caught in the crossfire. Shot twice in the leg, Rose was moved from hospital to hospital as doctors tried to remove the bullet.

This story looks at the physical and psychological scars, the human cost of the June 25th protests and the pursuit for justice a year later.

What happened to the victims after people "moved on"?

#TheCostOfABullet, produced by @bonareri_tracy premieres this Sunday 28th June on the Africa Uncensored YouTube Channel.

[Dr. C @chao_mbogho]

That man is now intentionally distracting us with his poorly punctuated, weird tweets. He is just seeking attention so that the focus is on his tantrums. A one-off meltdown tweet might be dramatic, two is intentional. What in the head-of-state faux pas is going on. Smh.

[Wamutahi @Son_of_Laikipia]

In this guy's PhD dissertation, he points out that muzzling the press was one way Moi's dictatorship was entrenched 😌.

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

I had tea with a prospective business colleague and in the course of talking I realised one thing; we have a "Kenyan" culture that is inherently cutthroat, seeks shortcuts, refuses to honour the long process of growth, and wants instant gratification at maximum gains NOW.

[Brenda @brendawambui]

You people have got to adopt more intelligent/nuanced readings of the complaints Nairobians make about their surroundings.

It's not NIMBYism, or yearning for 70s/80s/90s aesthetics.

They're complaining about the decline in liveability (quality of life) in shorthand.

[#OromoProtests @SeiseBagbo]

I always believe this is the role of oppression: to keep you unimaginative.

To never see youself as deserving or worthy. To believe there is no future where you rest or become.

To never think of yourself as human enough. So, all your work is to prove yourself as worthy.

[pastor micheal @dexxe]

govt selling your ecitizen data is worse than them selling your kra data. it's the wildest thing i have heard today

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

The responses here vary between ridicule/glee over the "simp" CS, or menacingly referring to femicide as a possible solution to this simp problem.
Very few are questioning how a CS whose pay is public can afford 60 million for an extra house. Our taxpayer money, mind you.

[Njeri Waridi @Njeriwaridi]

Violence as the solution to every problem in Kenya…….in this essay….

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

There is a saying in Togo: even in times of famine, you do not eat from just any trash.

I have been thinking about it since the Kenyan government agreed to build an Ebola treatment centre on its soil for American patients.There is truly no floor, no depth beneath which African leaders will not descend in their eagerness to demonstrate loyalty to foreign powers and collect whatever token of approval is offered in return.

[Dr. C @chao_mbogho]

I'll never get used to just how much contempt most Kenyan political leaders show Kenyans.

They spend more time defending things Kenyans are loudly against, than listening.

As if their positions have placed them above Kenyans' intellect & see the collective as inherently stupid.

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

Strong and resilient when women give birth using torchlight and there's such poor infrastructure sick people die on nduthis enroute to the nearest referral hospital because local clinics are in utter rot???
You people are devils.

[Brenda @brendawambui]

It’s all fun and games while we are in our 20s, 30s and 40s cultivating bad bowels, bad lungs and bad organs through bad habits that we’ll pay for in our 50s, 60s and 70s, then the government decides to compound our future losses by Ebolamaxxing?

Prayers up for real.

[Brenda @brendawambui]

Remember how UhuRuto stans would tell us "si uchawi, ni maombi" when we were complaining about Jubilee "winning" in 2017?

And now we have deadly school fires before national prayer breakfasts, and hundreds of dead and/or missing children and women?

Labda ni uchawi. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[LenaSun @bylenasun]

NEW: Trump officials have instructed the US military to stand up a quarantine facility in central Kenya within a week for Americans exposed to Ebola. My latest. https://t.co/6kQdnk8Isg

[Mwende @mwende_kyalo_]

Also, when I specifically mention colonisation, it's not an excuse. It's an explanation. Understanding why you do the things you do is important for you to change your behaviour.

You can't run away from history in the name of " we can't blame everything on colonisation "

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

Save your rage for the wider community you are a part of, that has made parenting difficult and lonely; that villifies single mums; that makes it ACCEPTABLE to kidnap, rape, murder and dismember children. That's where our rage should be directed, not on a parent with few choices.

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

Finally, many of YOU address parents the same way the colonial state used to: as if we are stupid, clueless, infantile, useless, thick. Like we are people who peradventure found ourselves with kids and have no interest in their wellbeing, or in learning how to be better parents