America has an interesting way of preserving even the most infinitesimal parts of its history; through the work of playwrights who convert historical events into gripping plays performed on New York’s Broadway theatre community. 2017 gave us the true to the original screen adaptation of Fences by August Wilson, a film that was nominated for... Read More

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The Sexuality Blog: Turns out the #NotAllMen brigade doesn’t really care about men after all

Today on Twitter (as it often happens) a person was outed as a sexual predator. This isnt the first time outings of this nature have happened. Only six months ago, a popular twitter socialite and erstwhile businessman who used twitter as his primary brand medium was exposed as a serial sexual predator, threatening women with... Read More

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March 23, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: How do we solve a problem like Kiss Daniel?

Nigerian entertainment has a publicist problem. It really isn’t too much to expect that when a ‘celebrity’ attains a certain level of fame, the people profiting off him/her find a manager to ensure they don’t go around running their mouths and exposing themselves as crude and uneducated and misogynistic. But well, we’re in Nigeria and... Read More

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March 22, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: The worst thing you can be in Nigeria is poor and female

By now the news must have trickled everywhere. In spite of a court order forcing the Lagos state government from further demolishing the home of the dwellers in Lagos seaside fishing settlement Otodo Gbame, which fringes the Lagos state’s pride and joy the Lekki peninsula, yesterday the government went in will cranes and bulldozers, armed... Read More

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March 21, 2017

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[The Sexuality Blog] Back to Basics: Is solicitiation sexual harassment?

One of the unexpected consequences of access to social media is encountering scenarios and alien to one’s lived experiences and how people react to those scenarios. These reactions, often spurred by ignorance have necessitated the back to Basics series and it seems, has necessitated a discussion about sexual harassment. The ‘unholy’ trinity of non-consensual sexual... Read More

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March 20, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: Are you C.I.S?

In the last two months handling the sexuality blog we’ve come to realise that a big part of the problem with prejudice towards LGBTQ persons is ignorance. And this ignorance, while unpleasant cannot be entirely be the fault of the ignorant. Sexuality and how we understand has simply moved much faster than most people can... Read More

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March 20, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: Sex work is not prostitution

Yeah I said it, sex work is not prostitution. Part of acknowledging that the world is far more complex than we previously conceived is being willing and ready to change the language we use to describe thing. Language matters; to name a thing is to have power over it. The checkered history of the word... Read More

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March 17, 2017

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Why is the trans narrative so centered on Transwomen?

We’ve spoken at length about how sex and gender are not the same thing. This is an important to make when discussing how sexual orientation plays out in situations that involve transgender people and how feminism, though a tool used to fight oppression of women has evolved to exclude the very women it tries to... Read More

March 16, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: Last weekend proved we’re still fighting people instead of institutions

It might seem like we’re dwelling on Chimamanda’s ‘TERF-Gate’ (that’s what we’re choosing to call it here on the Sexuality Blog) but considering how far reaching the ripples of her one minute statement has proven, we’ve been shown yet again that even the countries we look to as our vanguards of feminism and inclusion are... Read More

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March 14, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: Is gender different from sex?

With all the furore that has happened in the last week around Chimamanda’s comments about trans-women, Nigerians home and abroad who were only starting to contend with the idea that comfortable in skin (cis) women deserve equity with men and sexual minorities (the gay and lesbian communities exist) are suddenly thrust into a whole new... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

March 13, 2017

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[The Sexuality Blog] TERF-DOM: Chimamanda clarifies her ‘transphobic’ comments, but it won’t be enough for many

Do we need to explain that interview? If you haven’t heard about it, you should probably click here and catch up. And if you have, then you already know that Chimamanda’s comments about the transsexual experience had LGBT activist groups on twitter labelling her a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, the feminist equivalent of the KKK.... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

March 13, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: It turns out Chimamanda Adichie is human after all

Unless you’re a Nigerian without access to social media, or really any kind of media, you’ve probably heard of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The only contemporary black literary icon who has as much political and social influence as Adichie is probably Warsan Shire and both have collaborated with Beyonce, the biggest contemporary popstar in the world.... Read More

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March 10, 2017

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[The Sexuality Blog] Back to Basics: Does a rape victim bear any of the blame?

We at The Sexuality Blog are revisiting the basics, and as best we can, explaining the concepts of sex, consent and the different aspects of rape culture with analogies that are specific to Nigerians. We are also trying to answer a number of questions that revolve around rape culture and how our current beliefs and... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

March 10, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: Toxic Masculinity affects everyone, even you

The Huffington Post recently put out an article that puts in perspective a very specific problem: America’s epidemic of gay, lonely, men. While the article majorly profiles white, comfortable in skin gay men (as often happens when major journalistic organizations investigate LGBT issues) it raises some serious points. Of all the LGBT groups marginalized as... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

March 8, 2017

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[The Sexuality Blog] Back to Basics: Has the concept of rape changed?

We at the Sexuality Blog are revisiting the basics, and as best we can, explaining the concepts of sex, consent and the different aspects of rape culture with analogies that are specific to Nigerians. We are also trying to answer a number of questions that revolve around rape culture and how our current beliefs and... Read More

March 8, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: We need to talk about queerness

Not everyone falls into a binary and that’s okay. Sexuality isn’t as much shock and awe in Nigeria as it was a little as ten years ago. Thanks to Bisi Alimi coming out on air on Funmi Iyanda’s defunct ‘New Dawn’ and the events that have followed that cataclysmic event, the average Nigerian is now... Read More

March 7, 2017

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The recent NOI Polls on Female Genital Mutilation should give you serious pause

NOI Polls the premium polling service in West Africa on the 3rd of March released stats from their latest poll on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). For all intents and purposes F.G.M. has been outlawed across the country but unofficially it continues to thrive across the country spurred by superstition, harmful cultural practices and in rarer... Read More

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Female Genital Mutilation, NOI Polls

March 6, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: Kemen’s #BBNaija eviction shows we have made progress but we still have a long way to go

Even though we still have a long way to go concerning sexuality, gender and women’s rights; the events of last night on Big Brother Nigeria and the reaction to those events prove we have come a long, long way as Nigerians. For those who don’t follow the Multichoice and Endemol produced reality show, the Big... Read More

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BBNaija, kemen, T-Boss, The Sexuality Blog

March 4, 2017

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The Wedding Party proves New Nollywood is no better at giving women agency than Old Nollywood

It’s been a couple of months since The Wedding Party, arguably the biggest commercial success Nollywood has ever produced hit cinemas and blew everyone right out of the water. Now that the Christmas spirit has waned and we’ve found enough distance to took a proper look at the film, we’ve realised it barely passes muster.... Read More

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March 3, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: In the Moonlight black boys win Oscars

I stayed up all night on sunday to watch the 89th Academy awards, because for the first time in forever I had a real horse in the race. Moonlight, the coming of age film about a young drug dealer growing up in the projects of Liberty City, Miami. Adapted from the autobiographical play by playwright... Read More

March 3, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: Finally a Nollywood film that gets sex work right

I can’t be the only one who cringes when we see certain topics being treated as the subject of a film. LGBT issues, sexuality and gender, often when these topics are tackled in film, it is always skewered to appeal to certain audiences instead of showing the reality of the situation. I am pretty much... Read More

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March 3, 2017

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The Sexuality Blog: And now, some plastic surgery for your scrotum

In case you didn’t know, Modupe Ozolua isn’t the only person offering plastic surgery options to middle class Nigerians willing to part with a few hundred thousand Naira in exchange for a flatter stomach, bigger breasts and in some rare cases a prettier vagina. There are discreet private clinics in Lekki and Wuse offering the... Read More

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January 4, 2017

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LONG READ: What you must know before arguing about the slave trade in Libya

In 2017, YNaija committed a big part of its time and resources towards carefully documenting the big stories happening in the country and on the continent and highlighting the efforts of young Nigerians and Africans challenging the tired narratives around the continent through personal achievement and social good. Sometimes these stories are forgotten, buried under... Read More

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human trafficking, libya, Long Read, Migration, slave trade, slavery

The Sexuality Blog: What ‘Newsies’ taught me about American pro-choice activism

The Sexuality Blog: Turns out the #NotAllMen brigade doesn’t really care about men after all

The Sexuality Blog: How do we solve a problem like Kiss Daniel?

The Sexuality Blog: The worst thing you can be in Nigeria is poor and female

[The Sexuality Blog] Back to Basics: Is solicitiation sexual harassment?

The Sexuality Blog: Are you C.I.S?

The Sexuality Blog: Sex work is not prostitution

Why is the trans narrative so centered on Transwomen?

The Sexuality Blog: Last weekend proved we’re still fighting people instead of institutions

The Sexuality Blog: Is gender different from sex?

[The Sexuality Blog] TERF-DOM: Chimamanda clarifies her ‘transphobic’ comments, but it won’t be enough for many

The Sexuality Blog: It turns out Chimamanda Adichie is human after all

[The Sexuality Blog] Back to Basics: Does a rape victim bear any of the blame?

The Sexuality Blog: Toxic Masculinity affects everyone, even you

[The Sexuality Blog] Back to Basics: Has the concept of rape changed?

The Sexuality Blog: We need to talk about queerness

[The Sexuality Blog] Back To Basics: Let’s talk about consent

The recent NOI Polls on Female Genital Mutilation should give you serious pause

The Sexuality Blog: Kemen’s #BBNaija eviction shows we have made progress but we still have a long way to go

The Wedding Party proves New Nollywood is no better at giving women agency than Old Nollywood

The Sexuality Blog: In the Moonlight black boys win Oscars

The Sexuality Blog: Finally a Nollywood film that gets sex work right

The Sexuality Blog: And now, some plastic surgery for your scrotum

LONG READ: What you must know before arguing about the slave trade in Libya

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