Category: Non-binary Blog
Why legalising sex work could protect women
In the course of the series of interviews that became the YNaija documentary on sex workers, one wish made up ...
Nigeria’s future continues to shrink in the lost dreams of children living with learning disabilities
There is a well-loved meme on the internet whose immortal words “Are you not ashamed of yourself? are you not ...
#PansexualAndPanromanticDayOfVisibility | 5 things you shouldn’t say to a pan person
Not many people even in the LGBTQ+ community pay any mind to pansexuality and panromanticism. The mere mention of the ...
3 Nigerians share lessons they learned in therapy that changed their lives
A practising therapist’s advice once taught me to never frame a piece of advice received from a therapist as “my ...
Profile: The avenging advocacy of Iyabo Ojo
It may be her greatest performance yet. But it had nothing to do with fiction. There was drama though. Plenty ...
How we could all use our privilege better with Twitter’s +Alt Text feature
When the conversation on accessibility comes up – in corporate boardrooms or policy roundtables or in our TV and Radio ...
Alarm: There is an auction market for women all over Nigeria
There is a thriving auction market in Nigeria and what is up for grabs is women. The commodification of women ...
The slow progress of gender parity may be because men are not listening to women
A heated exchange between friends on the merit of men’s allyship in the fight for gender equality concluded thus over the ...
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia: The LGBTQ+ resist from the church to the street
One thing that LGBTQ+ people can’t be said to be bad at, is resisting their oppression by whatever means available. ...
Nigerians living with disability are still waiting on the promises of the Disability Act
The time is ticking for all stakeholders to fulfil the promises of the Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act ...
There is a common ground inspiration for better mental health policy in Nigeria
There is a lot that the global pandemic reminded us of about our lives, community and the fragility of society’s ...
The sexuality of LGBT+ people is allowed to evolve
Perhaps because the fight for LGBT+ rights in Nigeria is still in its waddling infancy, there is a lot of ...
The term ‘Kito’ diminishes the gravity of crimes committed against the LGBT+
At the beginning of the journey to go meet his year-long virtual friend, Ahmed, 24-year-old student, was apprehensive about the ...
Emotional abuse, Shame | Top non-binary tweets we saw from Nigeria this week
The conversation about the themes that make up our flywheel on the nonbinary blog are constantly evolving. We collate a ...
Peer pressure is a major contributor to Nigeria’s mental health crisis
The notion of peer pressure being bad for business is not new to anyone raised by Nigerian parents. In every ...
Nigerians on managing their mental health without therapy
Managing mental illness can be daunting even where access to therapy is easy. And Nigeria is not a place where therapy ...
We spoke to 3 survivors of sexual assault to unmask a sliver of the trauma of rape
The trauma of sexual violence is an oft-mentioned and well-studied phenomenon that is the reality of millions of women and ...
How sex education and demolishing purity culture could help in the fight against sexual violence
The first time I had sex it wasn’t sex, it was statutory rape. I wouldn’t know that until years later. ...
The Ugandan parliament has redefined sexual consent in harmful ways
On Monday, May 3, 2021, the parliament of Uganda confirmed that the Sexual Offences Bill (2019) had passed its third ...
The place of art in advancing LGBTQ+ equality | Music Edition
Picture this: A young boy of 10 flipping through the channels in search of a language to describe his struggles. ...
The aftermath of tragedy: In memory of Iniobong Umoren | #JusticeForHinyHumoren
Over the weekend, Nigerians on Twitter yet again shared in the unrelenting grief of Nigerian women as millions rallied frantically ...
7 tips to stay sane while living in Nigeria | A psychotherapist’s guide
Restless and tense. A sense of impending danger or doom. Difficulty controlling worry. A strong urge to avoid things that ...
How to report a rape case – a love letter to the Nigerian media
The media plays a key role in not only documenting but also educating the public on all issues of cultural ...
The perils of being a traditional religion practitioner
If you are to randomly pick a stranger in a crowd of Nigerians, say, Kurmi Market Kano, and ask them, ...
We will all benefit from a menstrual leave policy
On 23 April 2021, a South African business owner took to Twitter to announce her joy at the introduction of ...
Divorcing in Nigeria as a Muslim woman
The topic of divorce remains largely taboo across cultures in Nigeria. Endings are generally thorny things to happen to a ...
Cuppy: Nigeria’s mental illness crisis persists because bullying has not stopped
In January 2019, 10-year-old Kevin Reese Jr. commited suicide by hanging himself in his closet. The kid had taken that ...
Pantami mayn’t be the enemy. Islam, as practiced in Northern Nigeria is
There is a lot that the Pantami saga ought to have taught us. Most of it are things we must ...
Yes, witchcraft accusation is a prosecutable offence in Nigeria
Nigerian feminists have been at the receiving end of accusations of witchcraft for a very long time. It didn’t start ...
3 Muslims on how the culture of public humiliation for not fasting changed how they feel about Ramadan
On 10 April, just days ahead of the commencement of Ramadan, I wrote this piece calling upon world leaders who ...
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