By Billy Hani Fingering is often viewed as ‘less than’ in terms of penetrative sex. Due to heterosexual norms, ‘penetrative sex’ is only seen to be valid when it involves a penis. Otherwise, it is simply considered as ‘women masturbating’ or a part of foreplay ‘before the main thing – aka a penis.’ Queer women are often insulted for engaging in and enjoying fingering, as one of the ways that they have sex. In Kenya, statements such as ‘sasa msichana …
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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! …
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 …
I’ve never been the outgoing type since the incident at college but this girl had me considering otherwise. She picked out one club on 3rd street downtown “The Twist”. Every Friday she’d pick me up from …
We’ll call her Babe. THE THREESOME If someone asked me to list my top 3 threesomes, I’d list this one thrice. Babe saw him (at the supermarket). Beautiful-as-fuck man. Brought him back to the party with …
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 …
Every wondered how two womxn truly f**k? Chances are it isn’t always what you think. Even though the internet space bombards us with all sorts of problematic porn, depicting strange, often impractical ways, that women are …
Nobody likes Biology practicals. The lab is dark and airless, and instead of microscopes and Petri dishes, we have only decomposing carcasses of dissected frogs and lizards spread across the tables. The whole room smells like …
I am super excited to share that I will be facilitating a twitter chat with Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Rafeeat Aliyu, the editors of #SheCalledMeWoman on Friday, 4th May at 1 pm GMT via @adventurefrom #SheCalledMeWoman …