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It’s strange, how you go from a being person who is away from home to a person with no home at all. The country that is supposed to want you has pushed you out. No other country takes you in. You are unwanted, by everyone. You are a refugee. One day when we were walking […]
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The question that lingers even after reading the book is about the use of symbolism in the cartoon and who has the final say—the creator or the readers?
...moreIn a nation as solipsistic as the US, we don’t hear much about politics in other countries. This is doubly true when it comes to woman-centered movements, and triply true when those movements are in Africa. In an opinion piece for the Guardian, Minna Salami talks about feminist success stories the Western world has largely ignored: […]
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At 13, I never hear anyone use the words “slut, whore, bitch,” until they are said to me, about me. Brain damage, in one area of my skull. Straight A’s in the other.
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