Ojuelegba princess 👸

Well read Yorubaddie

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

HOT TAKE: you could do all the therapy and healing in the world but if you don’t have financial security, your nervous system will always feel unregulated.

[N. @naledisibisi]

you guys are so talented and this caption EATS

[S. 🏆 @saratu]

An African president speaking about divorce and against gender-based violence to a gathering of men? God, precisely when?

[ceciatl @ceciATL]

ppl genuinely believe they have the right to restrict the autonomy of other ppl down to what they’re allowed to even THINK AND FEEL& are simultaneously refusing to draw the very short line from there to the way WOMENS autonomy has specifically and systematically been destroyed

[ceciatl @ceciATL]

kill the cop in your head before it kills you (and your ability to have genuinely fulfilling connections)

[interpretation @materialcritic]

big life tips dont be neurodivergent dont be poor dont get in any sort of situation and dont let yourself need or crave anything

[obalende chimamanda @omosalewasmiles]

that’s why I go to bed at 8pm mind you

[fluttershy @hwrtyed]

#absentdaughterfigure

[Lakyn Thee Stylist @OgLakyn]

So much style discourse (and maybe other discourse but definitely style and shopping) online comes from people wanting to outsource the long and sometimes difficult process of figuring out what exactly they personally need and want from their clothes.

[glucosebiscuit 🥀 @glucosebiscuit]

How it feels to be deeply affected by something that another person did and they do not care at all

[wendell sandico @wendellsandico]

there should be a word for when it’s a nice day out and you feel guilty about not going for a walk

[(˵◝ ⩊ ◜˵マ @jelleousfish]

oh yeah no, for sure

[. @southernsiren__]

okay i forgot to reply to you on hinge but you don’t have to act like you don’t recognize me at this party

[w.e.b dubiracial @mattdj00]

harriet jacobs’s question “Why does the slave ever love?” genuinely stopped me in my tracks. and for that question to follow an extended illustration of the sexual violence she faced is a powerful rhetorical move

[Mntrazana @moanerleaser]

‘We are aware of the many reasons
To fall apart
To break apart
To never rise again
But we have lived in the glory
Of standing with our face
Towards the sun
Again and again.’

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Future family photo:

[Torera🥳🥳🥳 @Toreraoladeji]

Technology Facilitated Violence against Women is a real thing.

Tons and tons of research have been published.

An extension of traditional misogyny into digital spaces.

[ThatPortharcourtBoy aka Nnukwu Nmanwu @ThatPHCBoy]

all i will say is that with the way nigerian women are groomed to center their lives around marriage, be very wary of a twice divorced nigerian man. as per not one but two nigerian women experienced him and said nope? it's better for you to marry lucifer tbh

[Someone, Somewhere @CapobiaNB]

I sometimes suggest folks to tell their doctor they would prefer to insert the speculum themselves for an exam, and see docs reaction. That’ll tell you all you need to know about their reproductive health framework.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

Some years ago I wrote that African politicians can loot state coffers and once in while, organize a charity event. And people will still celebrate them and say “well at least he is a generous thief”.

That is how most of our first ladies on this continent became distributors of sanitary pads and plastic buckets in so-called charity activities, handing back crumbs of what was stolen from the very people receiving them, and being applauded for the generosity of the gesture.

I realised today that the exact same logic applies to foreign powers looting our resources. They can extract hundreds of billions over decades, assassinate our leaders, control our currencies, poison our waters and then return with a token pledge of meager investments at a summit they organised to rehabilitate their own image, and people will say: “well, at least they were kind enough to host the event here because hotels were sold out”.

When you have been conditioned long enough to expect nothing, a crumb looks like a banquet.