biancaful

Neuroscience 🧠, Product manager, Fashion👗

[biancaful @bee_the__queen]

@slivesterssande @AfricaCDCYouth Alright..thank you

[biancaful @bee_the__queen]

@farmtheblock @AfricaCDCYouth @crabymcquist I’m yet to receive the link for registration

[biancaful @bee_the__queen]

@farmtheblock @zurieaisha I have followed and still can’t dm you

[Johnny Drille @Johnnydrille]

8 years later, still the most beautiful song. Special one with @SympLySimi 🤍

#JohnnysMusicMondays

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

This is why I keep stressing that learning "small talk" is important. I got married that way.

[Pecs @peculiarerhis]

https://t.co/09PnghRm9k

[The LIGHT☄️ @Adasu_d_gr8]

Today in Church, during the announcement, the pastor started crying.

After about five minutes, he broke the news. His 19 years old daughter is pregnant—out of wedlock.

He said the temptation to abort the baby to avoid public shame was becoming overwhelming, so he's announcing it to shame the devil that they won't do that.

And then he started crying again. Other ministers needed to lead him out.

I thought there'll be backbiting and side talk but he was led out with a standing ovation.

I felt so happy that the Church is regaining the love that was once in our midst again.

[Lemonade_🍹 @_kathiiie]

Imagine being at work and your wife sends you a video like this 🥹

[Oyinkansola Alabi (Dr.) @EmotionsDoctor]

For the next three years, I’m committing my time, energy, and expertise to an in-depth research project titled:

“Good Girl” Syndrome: Examining the Long-Term Psychological Costs of Early Socialization Toward Compliance, People-Pleasing, and Conflict Avoidance.

Across this period, I will be:

Investigating how “be a good girl” conditioning shapes women’s inner worlds, self-worth, identity, and emotional health, well into adulthood.

Exploring how chronic people-pleasing and conflict avoidance affect career choices, earning potential, boundaries in relationships, and overall life satisfaction.

Gathering real stories, lived experiences, and psychological data to understand how early expectations of compliance translate into burnout, resentment, self-silencing, and hidden depression later in life.

Developing practical frameworks and tools to help women unlearn harmful conditioning, reclaim their voice, and build emotionally healthy, assertive lives.
This work will involve interviews, surveys, collaborations with professionals, and the careful analysis of patterns across different cultures, ages, and backgrounds.

If you are passionate about women’s mental health, emotional freedom, and the dismantling of harmful gender conditioning, and you’d like to support this three-year journey, this is an invitation to walk alongside the research, not just read the final paper.

By fueling this research, you aren't just supporting a document; you are anchoring your name to the definitive work that will liberate women from the "Good Girl" syndrome for decades to come.

To initiate a direct conversation, please send me a DM.

[Fifi, the fairy 🌟🍭🧚🏾 @fifss__]

What to do after rape — advice from a Nigerian lawyer.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Dear dreamer,
Do what sets your soul on fire, and the world will gather to watch you burn beautifully.

From the chessboard, with love.

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

“I borrowed people’s phones till they were tired of me. I was in University, I borrowed from all the people that had iPhones in my class to shoot videos. That’s how I also built my team” - Content Creator, Aquaman shares his career journey.

[Aubrey Strobel @aubreystrobel]

Lent begins tomorrow! Not sure how many Catholic women follow me on here, but for Lent you can either give things up: complaining, scrolling, gossiping, or add things in: praying, volunteering, etc.

I am continuing to pray the rosary daily. If you haven't been one to pray the rosary before, neither was I. I prayed it on occasion or when I was in need. It really only takes 15-20 minutes. You can do it on a one mile walk, in transit, or in the morning to start your day. It's great to offer it up for others during Lent.

Additionally, I am doing an Lenten devotional that I have ordered from @blessedisshe__ -- really wonderful. You can expedite shipping to get it asap.

Other ideas:
The Bible in a Year Podcast by @frmikeschmitz is great. You can order the bible recommended by @AscensionPress to follow along.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

More than 50000 men take part in a fishing competition on the fourth and final day of the Argungu festival in Nigeria.

At the sound of a gunshot, the competitors jump into this Nigerian river and have one hour to catch the largest fish. Only traditional fishing tools are permitted, with many choosing to catch the fish by hand. The winner caught a fish weighing 59kh took home two cars and $740.

[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

Africa Center & Afreximbank have a Global Africa Gateway summer internship connecting students in America (African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, etc) with reputable companies in Africa

Selected interns will receive a USD$10,000 stipend.

Must be currently enrolled in graduate study or recent graduates.

Deadline: February 27
https://t.co/crlkWh7ICf

[Nywele Ngumu @mariahsudi]

On the other side I love how Nigerian women embody beauty and brains.. they are capable of existing in both realms, nothing used to amuse me and make me smile than seeing while professors in their 50s in full glamor presenting their papers.. hair, make up ,nails very loud

[𝐃𝐫 𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @DrJohnBishop]

The simple answer is NO; a husband’s consent doesn’t override his wife’s for anything regarding her health. It is her decision. It is called patient autonomy.

But the problem arises when the woman can’t pay for her own medical bills and the husband who is paying is selfish, wicked and stupid.

So he holds everyone including the doctors to ransom and we start negotiating with him to do the right thing. That’s why you see the husband’s permission not consent involved in health topics about women.

And this is why I keep saying every woman should have her own source of income. Not because money defines worth, but because money protects autonomy.

When you can pay for your own treatment, your voice carries its full weight without negotiations, debates or emotional gymnastics.

This also ties into the eternal argument of “What does a woman bring to the table?”

My dear, bring your own table.

Because the day you rely on someone else’s table, don’t be surprised when they try to rearrange your plates, choose your cutlery, and tell you where to sit.
Ownership is what gives you freedom.
Dependency complicates autonomy.

Let me put it in a simple analogy:

In medicine, the person on the operating table is the one who signs the consent form. If you’re the one lying there with the surgical light above your head, nobody else should have the pen in their hand.

A husband’s opinion can be heard. His concerns can be discussed. But his opinion or decision cannot override hers. Not in obstetrics, not in surgery, not in emergencies, not anywhere.

What doctors require is the consent of the patient. In this case, the woman carrying the pregnancy, the woman facing the risk.

So to answer your question again clearly:
• No, the husband’s consent does not override the woman’s.
• No, it is not required for a C-section.
• If a hospital insists on it, that is culture, not medicine.
• And if a woman cannot freely decide over her own health, then what exactly does autonomy mean?

This is why women working, earning, and having financial independence is not about “Western ideology.” It’s about having a voice that cannot be muted at the exact moment your life depends on it.

And in labour where seconds can make the difference between life and loss her voice must stand unchallenged.

When a woman is in labour, her consent is the only consent that matters. Not because the husband is irrelevant, but because patient autonomy is the cornerstone of modern medical ethics. The person whose body is on the line is the one whose voice carries the final authority.

A Caesarean section is major surgery.
It involves her uterus, her blood, her risks, her recovery. So legally, ethically, and clinically, only the woman can give consent.

The idea that a husband’s decision should override hers is a cultural leftover not a medical principle. And like I’ve said earlier, it is all tied to MONEY!

Hope this helps.

[biancaful @bee_the__queen]

@ceo_wale There is an SI scholarship for women in stem and the Global SI scholarship…can one apply for both if you meet the cri

[ISaidWhatISaidPod @ISWISPodcast]

For many women, faith and feminism will always be in tension, but Blessing doesn’t believe that at all. Neither cancels out the other.

Have you found a sweet spot or have you simply decided to go with one or the other ? #iswispodcast

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

To be loved to a point of invention