Sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off.
Bristling with half-baked knowledge from the books we had read.
You looked like the kind of person who will do something because you want to, and not because everyone else is doing it.
We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.We te...
There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair.
The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.
Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take it back, because her consent is important. Tell her that if anything ever makes her uncom...
She was not curvy or big-boned; she was fat, it was the only word that felt true. And she had ignored, too, the cement in her soul.
She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village woman; she should not...
Qui, dunque, parliamo di genere. Qualcuno dirà: Oh, ma sono le donne ad avere il vero potere: il bottom power (cioè il potere del fondoschiena, un modo di dire nigeriano per indicare l'uso che certe d...
It is easy to say, ‘But women can just say no to all this.’ But the reality is more difficult, more complex. We are all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization. Even
It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s Hello? after the second ring, and when he heard her voice, he raised his, almost shouting, as he always did with international calls. Her mo...
If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was 'women should not wear short skirts because they can g...
He thought the police would have to do better; everyone knew the cult boys had more modern guns
Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are.
Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.
In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. She shrank like a dried leaf. She had spoken English all her life, led the debating society in...
هل الحبّ هو هذا الاحتياج المُضلل لأن تكونَ إلى جواري معظم الوقت؟ هل الحبّ هو هذا الأمان الذي أشعرُ به أنا في صمتنا؟
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
We use the word respect to mean something a women shows a man, but not often something a man shows a woman.