As we drove back to Enugu, I laughed loudly,above Fela's stringent singing. I laughed because Nsukka's untarred roads coat cars with dust in the harmattan and with sticky mud in the rainy season. Beca...
Are you still working on that? Since when did eating become work?
Anglo-Saxon Protestant, otherwise known as WASP, and American Black is always on the bottom, and what’s in the middle depends on time and place. (Or as that marvelous rhyme goes: if you’re white, you’...
Anger, the tone said, is particularly not good for a woman. If you are a woman, you are not supposed to express anger, because it is threatening.
Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
And, by the way, you and the guy
And when, all those years ago, I looked the word up in the dictionary, it said: Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.
And what’s a Magic Negro, you ask? The black man who is eternally wise and kind. He never reacts under great suffering, never gets angry, is never threatening. He always forgives all kinds of racist s...
And they have been raised to expect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings with no self-control is somehow acceptable. We
And it struck Obinze that, a few years ago, they were attending weddings, now it was christenings and soon it would be funerals. They would die. They would all die after trudging through lives in whic...
And I was worried that if I looked too feminine, I would not be taken seriously. I really wanted to wear my shiny lip gloss and my girly skirt, but I decided not to. I wore a very serious, very manly,...
America to fight on the Internet over their mythologies of home, because home was now a blurred place between here and there, and at least online they could ignore the awareness of how inconsequential...
Algunas personas preguntan: ‘¿Por qué la palabra feminista? ¿Por qué no sólo dices que crees en los derechos humanos, o algo así? Porque eso sería deshonesto. El feminismo es, por supuesto, parte de l...
Afterwards they would return to America to fight on the Internet over their mythologies of home, because home was now a blurred place between here and there, and at least online they could ignore the...
After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Was this what the novelists meant by ennui?
A questão de gênero, como está estabelecida hoje em dia, é uma grande injustiça. Estou com raiva. Devemos ter raiva. Ao longo da história, muitas mudanças positivas só aconteceram por causa da raiva....
A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires.
A las niñas les decimos: Puedes tener ambición, pero no demasiada. Debes intentar tener éxito, pero nodemasiado, porque entonces estarás amenazando a los hombres. Si tú eres el sostén económico en tu...
A ideia de mudar o status quo é sempre penosa.
A husband is not a headmaster. A wife is not a schoolgirl. Permission and being allowed, when used one-sidedly – and they are nearly only used that way – should never be the language of an equal marri...