08/05/2022 22:42 I’m in the front seat of this trosky drinking a can of ice-cold Heineken and deciding whether or not I want to submit for an anthology whose deadline is about an hour and twenty-two …
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Issues that do not fit into our broad categories
Written by Adwoa Supi This is a personal statement of a young Ghanaian woman who was ashamed of her femininity because of the misogynistic environment she grew up in, and thus protested against her body for …
Written by _Soleil I don’t identify as straight or gay. I believe it’s way too early to be putting labels to my sexuality just yet. And this may shock people especially since I am a young …
(Special mention to those who lived in a time when ‘queer’ was an insult. We see you. Guess what, we took it back! Queer is ours and it means love & liberation & colour. Thank you! …
My baby brother and I I’ve been struggling to write this because he is such a private person, but he’s featured enough in my tweets and other social media to not be a stranger to anyone …
20/02/21 01:20 I’m neither drunk nor high, but I definitely have a buzz. I’ve had several shots of tequila and I’m pretty sure my lungs have forgotten what clean air tastes like. I can’t decide whether …
By Muthoni Njoki I have been single all the twenty-something years I’ve been living on this rock. This isn’t to mean that I haven’t dated people. After all, I am a parent to an amazing eight-year-old. …
I was in my first year of university when I owned my first toy. I was always that girl everyone knew to be sex-positive, open and free about sexual health and pleasure. So when a classmate …
I think of you when it rains. I think of you in so many indecent ways, in several lascivious ways that leave me hot with hunger despite the cool of the weather. I imagine it’s late …
At home, I treat myself to a glass of pinotage, a springbok carpaccio and avo salad. I giggle at the subconscious choice to have a light meal, something I would usually do if I had reason …