Many writers and artists, especially those who create in isolation that lasts for months if not years, have one tool at their disposal that’s often not talked about: making love to oneself. It is not about …
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Celebrating women’s sexuality is one of the more prominent improvements feminism has yielded. However, it seems that this sex positivity is being confused with promiscuity. And it’s not judgy African aunties making the conflation – it …
The Setting: But for the light that seeped through the curtain from the bulb outside, only a lamp on the nightstand lit the dark room. Their thoughts: His eyes gloss over her body, memorizing its outline …
The other day I had my first experience of casual sexual intimacy that was truly casual, although I would love/have loved for it to become something else – or to have such promise – because after …
It was on a weekday, I think a Tuesday or Wednesday; days of no significance with dreadful suns in Autumn. My days were grayed by bunking classes for reading books and writing. The yellow came from …
Written by Fancy Goodman Mama never told me what the thing was. All I knew was that after people got married, they had children. When I was eight I asked her, “Mama, where do babies come …
I’d been in the field working for days and I was craving a long hot bath in a bathroom that didn’t feel so strange. I missed my bed and the safety of my own walls while …
This is how most girls, cis or trans, come to understand the limits of our lives: we are introduced early to the guardians of girlhood known as shame and fear. From the moment our girlhood is …
“Na Gay Dey Reign” is a term used on Nigerian Twitter to mean it’s time for the LGBTQIA+ community to shine, and they are here to stay. For centuries, we have been made to believe certain …
The Young Feminist Collective stands in solidarity with the Ghanaian LGBTQIA+ community and LGBT+ Rights Ghana in particular. In the face of the recent escalation in violence targeted at the community, we find it necessary to …