This is exactly why you’ll find grown men glorifying their mothers’ sacrifices while having very little understanding of what those sacrifices actually cost them. I remember my aunt once telling me that leaving her job was one of the worst decisions she ever made yet her
bra fitting women are so funny because i went into a brassiere store and was having some difficulty with sizing and asked for help. the lady studied my boobs in the bra, nodded, and said to herself “large but they used to be much larger.” and got me a bra that fit perfectly. it was like she understood the spirit of my boobs
Kenya hosts millions of them from South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi and even Nigeria yet we don't go about beating them on the streets.
realizing you can't just labor your way into financial freedom is terrifying. hard work alone isn't enough anymore, there is a whole different system at play.
shaming women for loving men (who wear masks to disguise their poor character) instead of shaming men for having poor character is also internalized misogyny, btw.
hope this helps!
Nearly everywhere in Africa is burning up but the AU is just issuing congratulatory messages to dictators. That institution is very toothless and clueless.
No matter how bad your own life gets please don’t be the person who cannot hold space for other people’s joy. Fight that thing. It’s how you’ll stay human.
That joy must be made, not found. Because sorrow doesn’t wait for you to make time. It doesn’t ask for permission but arrives uninvited,loud, greedy and without warning. It takes. And takes. And keeps taking. It empties rooms, quiets laughter, and lingers in the bones.
Just found out today “children honor thy parents” is only the first part of the verse and the rest is “parents, do not provoke children to anger”…I’ve been bamboozled 😭