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Quick reminder to “ I’m the voice of the voiceless” feminists that you are in fact not the voice of the voiceless. There are no “voiceless” women, just women whose voices are deliberately not being heard. Your job is to elevate & amplify their voices, not speak for them. Thanks✌🏾
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Please pay attention to LGBTQI Nigerians right now. They’re pushing back against state-sanctioned homophobia and demanding for the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (which the Nigerian government uses to violate them) to be repealed. Pls support and amplify them.
#RepealSSMPA
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A gaddam ratchet stripper who didn’t just get a hit but has in the past 2 years won a Grammy, 7 Billboard music awards, 5 MTV awards among others. Don’t be a misogynist. Unlearn your classism. Learn to respect other women. Celebrate women’s talents & achievements.
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Wow Gaslighting 101.
1. Shade a black woman activist in your song.
2. Pretend you weren’t being misogynistic when you‘re critiqued. 3. “Support” her after she responds to you so it looks like she’s overreacting when you meant well.
4. Have people question her rationality.
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The two grown men fighting on the TL can perish in hell. I just want to remind y’all that men know which of their friends are rapists. They know the rapists, harassers, paedophiles & abusers among them. But they keep quiet & only speak up when it serves their interests.
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So tired of tinder swindler discourse. Scams, like abuse, isn’t about being smart or tough. It’s about manipulation & deceit. Scammers choose their victims deliberately, and set them up by preying on their innate desire for love, acceptance, financial stability & safety.
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Even me that I’m a Ghanaian living in Ghana, I’m always triggered when I go to the Castle. Feeling the stench,darkness & dampness in the slave dungeons & knowing what happened there. Then walking to the beach knowing your ancestors walked there & never came back. It’s sobering 💔
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Love is not abusive. Love does not enable abuse or justify abuse. Love does not manipulate, humiliate, shame or blame.
Love is kind. Love is safe. Love affirms. Love uplifts. Love protects. Love pushes through darkness and illuminates.
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So prior to today, the Catholic Church had a RULE to protect sex offenders in the church, but it’s Netflix you people want to cancel? lol carry on
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When you keep quiet about rape, laugh at rape jokes with your friends, protect your rapist friends or make excuses for rapists by putting the blame on women - asking what they were wearing, drinking, doing out alone, etc you’re complicit in systemic violence against women.
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This is how Christians gaslight oppressed ppl into believing that their oppression is their fault because they don't pray hard enough or have enough faith. Meanwhile their oppression is a systemic one— of which the rich cisheterosexual church members are complicit in perpetuating
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Every year I’m annoyed by the corporate hijacking of IWD. It’s always some empty alliterative slogans. Balance for Better, Break the Bias. Like what do these things really mean? They don’t focus on a particular issue, doesn’t inspire any kind of activism. Just vibes & capitalism.
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Me: *hiding under the bed*
Armed robber:
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Armed robber:
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Armed robber: Shawdy want a million dollar
Me: SHEKPE!
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Truly horrifying what's happening to Ama Governor.
Every year, rapists are called to the bar before our very eyes.
Yet it is Ama Governor whose character/conduct is "questionable" simply because she documents how she navigates her life & shares it with us.
Shame.
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The problem is many ppl see feminism like religious doctrine where they apply their own interpretation & personalize it to suit them.
Feminism is more than beliefs. It’s praxis. It’s making choices to challenge unequal power dynamics esp when it favours us at others expense.
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Really don't understand how "SOME" men think gender equality is a synonym for sameness. Talking about "feminists wanna be men zkxrkcvvrhcryfjk". When MLK and Malcolm X were fighting for equality for black people, did you ask them if they wanted to be white men?
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It’s just occurring to me that the same Disney that trademarked the Swahili phrase “Hakuna Matata” is the same company with exclusive debut rights to this celebration of blackness/Africanness. There’s something here about neocolonialism but me ankasa I’m tired of everything 🙄
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Anti-vax Ghanaians understand freedom of choice and bodily autonomy until LGBT Ghanaians start asking for their right to self-determination, then suddenly it's no longer about freedom but majority rule.
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The former president was the one who looked at her chest. But Wendy Shay is the one who had to apologize and still lost her deal? Cool. I just want to know when men (in power) will start be being held accountable for being inappropriate too.
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I genuinely don’t understand why people say mean things about this man. If dancing in tight clothes makes him happy and he’s not harming anyone, what’s so wrong with it that people are wishing him suffering?
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Many of the stories coming out are being told by women who did not give in to the demands of a sexual harasser. But there are way more untold stories of women who sadly DID give in to the demands. I'm here to say to those women that it still doesn't make what happened to you ok.
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My mum was finally able to take communion in church for the first time since she married my dad. She looks so happy and I couldn’t be happier for her ♥️
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I think feminists should be able to critique other feminists. Interrogating ourselves & scrutinizing one another doesn't delegitimize the entire ideology. We must recognize that no one movement is the gatekeeper of feminism and no one person is the ultimate ambassador.
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Soja by Black Sherif is so specific to the theme of my life right now. After many years of struggle, my career seems to be taking off but it’s coming at great cost to my mental health. I’m constantly anxious, battling with imposter syndrome, and self-doubt…
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The patriarchy is what's wrong. If we stopped telling women that their life purpose is to marry & be "helpers". If we stopped denying women jobs & promotions they're qualified for, maybe they'd have something to look forward to other than marriage, & then you can keep your money.
A young lady would graduate and she's getting married next. Many don't have money or a job
A young guy would graduate and you tell him to go and make money. He will spend more years making money to be able to marry a girl that has no money
Tbh Something is wrong with all of us.
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The LGBTQI+ Community in Ghana is experiencing heightened human rights violations predominantly incited by religious leaders and politicians, amplified by the media and sanctioned by the state.
#BornFreeAndEqual
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
The LBGTQ+ Community in Ghana is Under Attack. Please send help
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Dear feminist sisters,
This is to remind you that if your feminism centres classed cishet women while excluding queer women + non- binary people, poor women, sex workers & women living with disabilities, your feminism is not radical.
The gospel according to Lorde.
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It is. Men rape women because they want to rape them. Rape is about power not sexual arousal. By telling women that they can prevent rape, you’re implicitly blaming victims/survivors for their rape since they didn’t prevent it from happening.
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Weddings are hard for me as a queer person. It’s the fact that I will celebrate with the couple knowing that if I chose to marry the person I love, there would be no social support for me. Not all my friends & family will show up. Instead I will be ostracized & face social death.
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To respond to the many messages about my religious upbringing. Me & my brothers have Muslim names but we were raised by my mother as liberal Christians. My brothers are still Christian but I’m currently non-religious & my parents are still processing what that means to them...
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Where was the Pentecost Church when Ghanaian youth marched on the streets to protest bad governance, poverty, youth unemployment and the killing of a comrade?
Be not deceived. This isn't about morality. It's about power & maintaining a social order as prescribed by the church.
#NewsNight
On the Anti LGBTQI+ Bill, the Chairman of The Pentecost Church of Ghana says they will vote against any government who votes against the bill
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"Nudity is not our culture". Except that it is. What's not our culture is sexualizing the bodies of black women. The colonizers taught us that and the results are the men in the replies. Imperialism + Patriarchy is a helluva drug. Sigh.
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I really hope this Moesha interview won't end at a self-righteous rant but make us have honest conversations about how hard it is for women to get a job/promotion/pay raise on merit & also truthfully engage the statistics on how women have higher poverty and unemployment rates .
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"We focus on sex so that we can dehumanize the LGBTQI community but when we talk about heterosexuality, it's hardly ever about sex" - Dr Kojo Asante
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I often wonder if there’s a future for me here to be queer. I want to find a life partner. Even if we can’t get married in the traditional way, just be together loving each other intentionally everyday & growing old together. I want to live a full life in the fullness of love.
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I want the best for queer & trans Africans. I want us to live a life free from violence, discrimination & shame. I want us to experience love that affirms who we are & who we can be. I want us to be able to unapologetically make art that reflects who we are. I want us to be free.
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Black trans men constantly talk about experiencing sexual & physical violence from cis men, about being misgendered by cis people, being unable to access healthcare, reproductive health services etc but you don't know this because you simply don't care about trans people.
I’m just curious to why it is always“transwomen” fighting women. Transmen no even disturb their counterparts like this. I don’t even see the problem with people genuinely identifying with another gender but you don’t want to listen to conversations around the dangers and situatio
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Nobody:
Twitter Misogynists: I tweet what I like. If you don’t like it, BLOCK ME🤬
Also Twitter misogynists: 😭Why did you block me? 😭 You’re so intolerant 😭 You’re living in an echo chamber 😭Misandrist 😭 Everybody look! This person blocked me 😭Why me? 😭
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You’re using racist terminology to assert superiority over Ghanaians - while using a colonizer’s language as the standard for cultural diversity - over a word that you pronounce wrongly anyway per same colonizer standard? Oluwa wetin dey occur?
Cardi B says she wants to choose a tribe in Nigeria, Nigerians are suggesting different tribes with different cultural diversities and uniqueness but our Ghanaian brothers can't relate because all tribes in Ghana Pronounce Pastor as Pasta
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African Feminist Twitter is one of the best things that has happened to my professional life & personal development! The network, access to development opportunities, writing gigs, access to tools & resources for organizing, the free education, community support & sisterhood ♥️✨
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My mother always tells me that she’s grateful I became feminist in her lifetime, because she’s lived to see me grow to be the kind of person she wished she was in her twenties ♥️
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A person who harasses women online simply cannot be trusted to contribute to creating a safe working environment for women free from harassment.
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People in the Zikoko QTs saying “just divorce & be together” as if we don’t live in a homophobic society. As if the consequences for those women isn’t lesbophobic violence, social death and/or jail. Homophobia & patriarchy is the real problem & these are the symptoms.
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I'm happy for Angola. As a former colony, decriminalizing homosexuality and banning LGBTQ discrimination is a huge step forward in the decolonization process. We're reclaiming our power by scrapping one colonial law at a time. Our ancestors will be proud.
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Male privilege is never having to think about how your thoughts and behaviour are harmful to women, but expecting sympathy when you get called out for said harmful behaviour and then having your bros defend you by asking women to do the labour of educating you.
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This anti-lgbt bill is so absurd. It contravenes basic human rights in so many ways and gives the state unbridled power to control the private lives of citizens. Forcing intersex people to undergo surgery? Even the language they used is so dehumanizing.
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Just here to say that Xorlali is an incredibly talented fashion designer. They specialize in bridal gowns & make the most fabulous kente bridal gowns! So if you're a bride-to-be, or you know someone looking for bridal gowns with pizzaz and personality, Xorlali is your person.
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Heterosexuality is pushed down our throats right from infancy. As kids we read books about princes kissing princesses and were taught binary gender roles to prepare us for heterosexual romantic partnerships in adulthood. Little girls are groomed from 3 years to be “good wives”
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The number of cishet women in the comments doing up “it depends on who you marry” is why I stopped talking about marriage abolition with cishet women. Lmao these people are not ready for patriarchy to end dear. They’re just looking for a man who will do the bare minimum for them.
Marriage is really one of the biggest setbacks for women and I wish they’d see that. Woah
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And yet capitalism will have us believe that people who do manual labour are often poor because they don’t work “hard” enough or save because they spend above their means 😪
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Woke up to cuddles, foot rubs and an earth-shattering orgasm and multiple smaller ones, a lovely breakfast and back to cuddles. Walahi this is the life I deserve 🙏🏾
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The split attraction model was developed by the asexual & aromantic community to differentiate romantic & sexual attraction on the spectrum of asexuality/aromanticism.
Lol it’s not for allosexuals to say “I’m sexually attracted to one gender & romantically attracted to another”
I’m bisexual but hetero-romantic. Meaning I am sexually attracted to both men and women but I’m only interested in being in a relationship with a man. Like girl we could bump coochies but I’m not cuddling and watching movies with you 😅😅😅
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Ok.
Since we're all talking anyhow, then they should close down missionary schools, stop teaching RME, CRS & IRS in schools, stop praying at morning assembly, stop doing morning devotion, disband SU & co, ban students from bringing religious books to school & preaching to others
Religious beliefs can’t be exhibited in schools – NAGRAT to Rastafarians, GES
Full Story:
#StarrNews
#GHOneNews
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I want to say Happy Pride but I can't in good conscience knowing that 21 LGBTQI+ activists in Ghana have been unlawfully thrown in jail and 44 queer & trans Ugandans have been arrested. It's not happy pride when we're still shackled by colonial chains of homophobia & transphobia.
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Omg men are so unimaginative. Their own is to wait for women to come up with ideas or start a cause for women and then their only contribution is “what about we the men?”
Kwasia. Go and ask your grandfather.
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Love the concept behind this campaign but I’m uncomfortable with the final message. The solution to end intimate partner violence (against women) is not to tell victims/survivors to leave. It’s to tell abusers to stop abusing women. Victims of IPV who leave are still tracked down
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Poor people don’t have access to birth control, contraception and safe abortion services like rich people.
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A 14-year old child was raped in my neighborhood yesterday. And some people found a way to blame her for bringing it upon herself because “girls these days are seductive”.
I’m exhausted & simply have no words anymore. I’m just oscillating between hopelessness and despair 💔
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I can't even sugarcoat it. Yes, I'm happy for hetero couples in love. And yes seeing them also elicits very deep feelings of bitterness and resentment. You're not more human than me and more deserving of love than I am so why is yours affirmed while mine is criminalized?
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I'm actually getting triggered by this conversation. I hate dishonesty. You people are behaving as if a woman can just get up and leave her husband for another woman in this Africa here where families organize men to rape their daughters into heterosexuality.
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As the year is ending, many people are celebrating wins. This tweet is for those who don’t necessarily have any big ‘wins’ because they spent the year trying to keep their head up & just remain alive due to mental health challenges. If this is you, I see you and I honour you 💙🦋
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The misinformation campaign that the anti-LGBT groups are peddling is really scary. My mum sent me a voice note early this morning asking me to clarify what "queer" means because they're saying on TV that queer people are the people who sleep with animals & trees, so is it true?
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My mom joined Zoom for the first time today to attend the Girl Talk Webinar but she was struggling to figure it out and kept interrupting the call with my brother so unfortunately she was removed. She’s been so embarrassed & questioning if she should have been there anyway.
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Like the women’s dungeons held both women & kids. They were starved, packed like sardines with no ventilation. They would pee, poop & menstruate in the same place. And right on top of the dungeons was a church. It’s very dark history & we’re too removed from it for my liking.
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Lmaooo so Nam 1 did an event thingy at Royal Richester this evening to sign a new artiste? Many people weren’t wearing masks or social distancing & Ghana Police was there shining teeth. Meanwhile ppl got shot at for flouting covid abaadze? It’s Animal Farm in live action guys
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Thinking how wild it is that journalists from an intl news agency came to my home yesterday to interview me about the conditions queer people face in GH. Meanwhile Ghana journalists in Ghana have formed a hate group called Journalists Against LGBTQ Ghana to persecute Ghanaians 🤯
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“Nobody buys the cow if the milk is for free”. what the fuck kind of misogynistic statement is this?
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I saw a tweet about growing up & being kinder to your parents. It’s true for me to an extent. I’m more understanding of them & I realize they’re just humans trying to figure things out. But that only came about because they were honest about their limitations & mistakes.
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3 girls Priscilla Bentum, Ruth Quayson and Priscilla Koranchie were kidnapped in Takoradi. The state stayed silent while the police lied to the mothers of these children. We remember them and we say their names today 🕊️💚
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
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Like this happened to our ancestors too. It’s a terrible thing to be violently removed from your home & everyone you love, enslaved, tortured and sent away into slavery. It’s deep-seated ancestral trauma. The last thing we should be doing is make mockery of it 💔
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Often times young Afrifems (me included) feel our feminism is incomplete because we haven’t read enough feminist theory. I want to encourage folks not to limit feminist theory to “big books.” We can engage African feminist theory through art, fiction, music, theatre, talks etc
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Nigerian men be like, "we hate transactional sex but if we're dating and I give you money and we break up, I will track you down and physically assault you in public. But I hate transactional sex though.
“Jane pay me back my 20k” – Boyfriend beats up girlfriend publicly after she dumped him moments after he paid her school fees in Michael Okpara University
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@anokyewow
My mother said when I was born, the doctors pulled a spoon out from my stomach. It was literally wired to my stomach 😭
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ALL men are potential rapists until proven otherwise.
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So there’s an American rapper at the seat of government in Ghana, on a podium that says ‘The Presidency, Republic of Ghana’ talking about “she fuck me as soon as she met me”.
Mind you this is the same country that lawmakers want to pass a hate bill to ‘protect the children’.
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Lmao men are the real pick-mes. They sooooo badly want to be liked by feminists. There's no day they're not crying online that feminists should stop hating them.
But will they stop harming women? No.
Awon omo rada rada. Oshisco PLC. Shior🙄
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Being forcefully outed, ostracized & facing expulsion in high school — only years later to meet people from same school identifying as queer & being fully self-accepting, has been validating in ways I would never have imagined. I was never alone. I just didn’t know it yet 💜
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Watch out people. Halloween, Cosplay & Costume parties may soon be illegal in Ghana because Sam George is offended by a stranger wearing a costume and walking down a street in their own country.
They say I have no case to make. They say I am backward. They say I am not enlightened. See their enlightenment. See their progress. Clap for them. Cheers. 🦁👏🏾
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Today I'm protesting for children in Ghana who are a vulnerable and often forgotten group.
About 73% of children in Ghana are living in poverty - making them the targets of physical, sexual and psychological abuse.
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
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A skatepark that was built from scratch by Ghanaian youth to support young artists & be a safe haven for young people in the community including the children on the streets who have been abandoned by the state was demolished for an illegitimate reason.
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
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if i love someone + they’re loving me back in the way i ask to be loved, i will love them publicly + privately. and if it ends in tears, i will grieve publicly + privately also. because i’m learning to feel my feelings + sit comfortably with them. i am not afraid to love or hurt.
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My online experience has been less stressful since I decided to stop engaging in “discourse”. I tweet for & at people who I’m in community with and who share in my vision of freedom from patriarchy, and I follow it through with in my work. Anything else is simply not my concern.
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Somebody reported a case of sexual harassment. As part of the investigation, you people called her roommates and were asking what kind of clothes she was wearing to lectures.
Bloody liars!
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It’s crucial for other Africans to be in solidarity with the LGBTQI community in Nigeria. Our leaders are co-conspirators in oppression & have a history of replicating harm to marginalized communities. If it happens to Nigerians, it happens to all of us.
#RepealSSMPA
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Really hate when male doctors tweet things like this to insinuate that their women patients are stupid. Without acknowledging that we live in a patriarchal context that denies the bodily autonomy and agency of women 🙄
A woman will come in carrying her 7th baby in her uterus for a man you’ll probably never set eyes on, her entire stay at the hospital. You’ll proceed to ask her to permit you tie her tubes and she’ll tell you she has to ask him 1st. Herh….
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The fact that your friend is sex-positive & open-minded doesn't mean that it's okay to violate their boundaries or involve them in sexual acts without their prior knowledge & consent esp when you know they'll say no if you'd asked directly. It's manipulative and not cool at all.
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This is really great news.
But them saying she needs to sign an undertaking to be of good behavior is very irritating, given that she never did anything wrong in the first place.
Let’s be clear on that. She never did anything wrong.
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Aren’t children too young to know their sexuality? I hate it when people force heterosexuality on children. Call me conservative but these children should wait till they’re 18 before they start doing these things. I’m sick of these liberals! 🙄
my shy little brother has had the biggest crush on this little girl, and today he wasn’t able to give her, her valentine’s gifts. so we drove him to her house and it took him forever to get out the car because he was so scared. she walked outside and she was cheesing so hard. 🥺
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For a country that claims to want to protect children, we actually hate children. We don’t respect children as autonomous people. Child abuse is normalized, rampant & expected. The elite class enslaves children from poor families & forces them to work as domestic servants.
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The GLC shows their bias again. On Friday, 196 students will be called to the Bar. Ama Governor's name is not on the list. But Victor Wonder Kutor, who was impeached as Ghana School of Law SRC President after he was found guilty of misappropriating school funds, is on the list.
Was it ever about morals? What do we even define as morality?
Because tell me why Ama Governor who never stole anyone’s money or hurt anyone is still not called to the bar but Wonder Kutor who was been found guilty of swindling a whole School of law is deemed fit to be a lawyer
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