The stories of mother to daughter abuse that are being shared as a result of this piece is the reason I hate those “give grace to your mother” tweets. Mothers are usually their daughter’s first abusers and we need to talk about this more. It’s a cycle that needs to end!
all the beating that nigerian parents beat their kids growing up, did it work? as a collective, do we behave like people who were well raised? this does not even require any sophisticated study, the answer is starring us in the face
I love how women have the ability to turn boring things into beautiful experiences simply by romanticizing the mundane, that is the art of being a woman
A HUGE fan of the push to keep under-16s off social media. I think it's an excellent idea, and NONE of the alleged positives, combined, amount to even a fraction of the immense, often irreversible negatives. I hope governments and society implement as quickly as possible
Same people. 56 years later. Sometimes I wonder if, in the middle of the bombings, the starvation, the fear, and the endless funerals, they ever imagined a future like this for us. Where we smile and shine