Dr. Njoki Ngumi
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I recently spoke with the matchless
@TheZeinabBadawi
and the incredible
@BBCHARDtalk
team regarding art and culture's role in communal changemaking and building new worlds, touching on
@thisisthenest
's and other wonderful work!
Have a listen here:
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@the_ag_kid
@themelaniedione
Yup, there is data on this.
Meanwhile, with small things like diet change, eg the man has to start eating low sodium, the whole house shifts to "encourage" him. If it's the woman, 2 sets of meals are cooked (often by her): hers and what everyone else will eat. No "encouragement"
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Our ancestors needed visas. VISAS. To move "legally" using specific routes, on specific days, at specific times, ON THEIR VERY OWN LAND.
On Their Very Own Land.
On. Their. Very. Own. Land.
Suppression of the MauMau was from 1952-1960. Most of our grandparents (born 1920s) were oppressed. Pic is my Grandmother's movement pass. I cannot mourn.
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"I didn't understand what women go through until I had a daughter."
What’s something that feels like feminism, but *isn’t* actually feminism?
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@tafararm
@WheelsnToys
May she and her baby fly from glow to glow, and abundance to abundance. As one of the great poets and philosophers of our time said, "You won't break my soul"
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The conversation about the place of a good friend when a loved one is being abused by a partner is ravaging. There are many contradictory, ugly realities and all of them are true.
I am thinking about Elianne Andam, who was just 15 when her friend's ex killed her with a machete.
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There is an intern in this town whose ancestors are NOT SLEEPING!
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@brownandbella
I was in theatre doing a CS when the (male) anesthetist said that women don't deserve pain medicine when they give birth, as we have to pay for the Sins Of Eve.
He said the ones getting CS are "cheating the system".
He gives anesthesia in a maternity hospital for a living.
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How strange it is: a brand new COVID variant discovered in France has not attracted group travel bans, when SA and other African countries are still reeling from the backhanded slaps we received from the "global community".
What times these are.
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💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
💕WILLIS AUSTIN CHIMANO 💕
💕💕 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
You are SO precious, loved, covered blessed and treasured.
THAT'S IT. THAT'S THE TWEET.
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@IceQuebe_
It's a good question. CPR doesn't depend on environment, but on whether the body can take in and circulate the oxygen it needs by itself. CPR is given when the body is unable to breathe and circulate blood. So someone breathes and pumps for the body that can't, from the outside.
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Can the husband in question be called upon to save his own marriage please
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This is EVERYONE's victory, whoever you voted for. The ruling wasn't for/against candidates, but for credible process
#SupremeCourtDecides
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Petition for
@MoiUniKenya
/
@MoiMedicine
to give Ivy Wangechi's parents her degree post-humously, and dedicate a women's lab/ward in their teaching hospital to her eternal memory.
She stands for all those so cruelly taken from us by murderous men.
May we never forget. 🌻
#RIPIvy
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@solidangles
@graciegcunning
WHAT HE SAID 🥺🤩😍
May you always be this charmingly curious, and irreverent, and intentional about the questions you ask. It opens SUCH doors. Your one question brought such magic to my TL 🤩
THESE are foundational principles, inventor, disruptor questions.
Please keep asking
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Healing and justice to Zainab in full ❤️❤️🩹❤️❤️🩹.
More reflections:
- African embassies are notoriously ineffectual during crisis
- Tourism/travel are moot without security assurances
- All AfCFTA choruses about continental trade must tackle xenophobia and misogyny
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It’s high time I told my horrible experience in Zanzibar as a young solo female traveler.
This incident happened a year ago in April of 2021 but I haven’t been able to talk about it cause I’ve been in therapy for a year to heal from the psychological trauma as this experience
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One day an elite cadre of femme assassins will be called "the slay queens" and it will not be funny any more. Selah.
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These people are stopping just short of saying they wish to GOD we would just die, so they can write triumphantly about how much better they are because they stole from our ancestors.
We can read it in the subtext.
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@obaa_boni
One reason feminists have no choice but to begin and end with community is because abusers already have community. They have enablers, plural, both individual and systemic. They have ready narratives that help them evade accountability and avoid ever having to change.
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In Kenya we don't say your partner is funny looking, we say "Wau, at least ako na roho poa" and I think that's epic 🇰🇪
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Kenyans surely
Someone's enterprise is called Frying Nemo and - 😭
Why are we like this
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@Lyndahx
@FreeBreNasty
Not overreacting at all. At all. Also his gaslighting and overall nonsense 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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@COBlackpacker
@FeralPeafowl
I'm sorry but why did the illustrator make the quokka laugh while doing this 😭😂
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Sis, never underestimate a man's ability to choreograph and execute a plot twist
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@brownandbella
Another - my friend
@Kamaitha
distributes menstrual supplies. She met a man who's whole innovation was 1 by 2 inch sanitary pads, because he felt that vaginas are cylinders 1 inch diameter so everyone else in the business was wasting material.
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One thing that Justina Wamae has brought home for me is her possession of a deep sense of love and respect for Kenyans, so often missing in politics.
Efficiency and action well balanced with care.
She really drives home that we deserve CORE dignity.
#DeputyPresidentialDebate2022
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"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always." - Khaled Hosseini
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The thing is that being in community with someone who is facing violent abuse can put us directly in harm's way.
So many have died this way.
At the same time leaving our loved ones alone with abusers is impossible.
So many have died this way.
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A statement like "women aged 12 who are divorced" being taken seriously is actually insane
Which counties have the highest number of divorced or separated women?
1. Kirinyaga 7.5%
2. Lamu 7.2%
3. Kiambu 6.2%
4. Mombasa 6.1%
5. Embu 5.8%
6. Nairobi 5.7%
7. Nyandarua 5.6%
8. Taita Taveta 5.3%
9. Meru 5.2%
10. Nakuru 5%
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@TheEbiraWitch
@tweetmoraa
The other ridiculous take is people who say women are emotional because they cry but fail to see their violent behaviour when frustrated as men being VERY, very emotional
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Zimbabweans have said that Kenyan policies are giving Zimbabwe.
There's literally no way to come back from this
Zimbabwe journalist terms Kenya’s new visa-free policy ‘fake and silly’
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@Phatima_Kills
Aside from agreeing 1000% with everyone who has said how STUNNING you would be in yellow 💛💛💛 I just want for you to be in a wedding of a friend who truly is hype to be loved by you and to be with the friends she loves on her special day
It's not this bride, sis. 🌻🌻🌻
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RIP to this baby who was so violently killed 💔.
A line here is about family members trying to bury her secretly.
Relatives taking part in abuse, rape, femicidal felonies, etc in 🇰🇪 are not a surprise.
Feminists have talked about ecosystems of violent misogyny for decades.
Father beats teen daughter to death 'for having a boyfriend'
Link:
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Sis is twerking backwards EN facken POINTE to Nyashinski's "Balance". Bringing us both the literal AND the metaphor up in here.
Excellence, thy name is Wanza 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
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There is a big difference between making your bed/doing your own laundry/keeping common areas neat,
and
the school turning students into shift workers to deep clean common areas regularly, mostly as punishment cum administrative savings.
Viva Gen Z for teaching us boundaries.
I am a guardian at Moi Girls Eldoret here in Uasin Gishu. My girl tells me "hatutaki kuosha choo, Kazi ni mingi. Waache kutuharass, let them employ more workers". I feel like beating these girls. Manual work is compulsory!
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@smoke_nd_pearlz
Beyond the asshole roommate, why do single mothers and primary caregivers have to live like this? Why is the system so hostile to children/childcare, reducing mothers to this with every emergency? Then she is called a bad parent whatever the outcome (missing exams or kid alone)
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Death is outside, death is inside and death is knocking at the door. Death is lurking in an alley and death is holding our hands. Death is our friend, death is a reprieve from the endless violence; death is the enemy, and we are in an eternal tornado of death, death, death.
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@KiaSpeaks
@kydaqueen
What Kia said, times one million thousands of infinities
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Getchu someone who will know that access to you and your life are a privilege, and act accordingly 🥇
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Saying "housewives don't make financial contributions in homes" is wrong.
Domestic care work and child care work (esp. early child care), are valuable by ANY metric, whether time/resource input, time saved to the man in work he doesn't have to do, task skill, management etc.
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"Take up your firearms when Tupac is within sight.
You are further encouraged to summon the constabulary when Tupac is at close quarters.
As you unfortunates did not bother completing your below average extermination attempt, you will surely be consumed by my rageful vengeance."
“As a result of our tumultuous discord, I’ve been intimate with your wife, you obese gentleman that I’m in quarrels with. Westside/Western Hemisphere”
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This interviewer deserved ALL the smoke she got because she called this baby in to shame and ridicule her
But did she ask herself who she was inviting? Had she not already seen how baby girl moves when provoked?
People need to learn the rules of the games they are playing 🤣
This ‘Malachi from South London’ girl off Tiktok might have one of the best interviews of this decade 😂😂😂
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A friend told me about being held hostage by another friend's angry, abusive male partner.
A relative told me about how a neighbour who was being abused would run to her house for shelter and the abuser would bang, bang, bang the door.
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"Cheza kama wewe" can be praise, encouragement, flirtation, shade or open mockery depending in who is saying it and what tone they use
Kiswahili 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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This man is a doctor but
- is unaware that fecal matter from food eaten on a day doesn't have to pass the same day
- is somehow also blithely unaware that fecal matter smells like fecal matter and not apples
Can the Lord get to him on the to-do list please. We have no time
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"Sins of the past have come haunting, as a vigilante group made up of girls who were circumcised in their childhood are out for revenge."
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Female vigilante group hunting, attacking elderly FGM surgeons
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Reflecting on how the abuse of women proximal to powerful men only comes close to punishment of the abuser because the abuse is viewed as a violation of the man by proxy.
Still not about justice or the survivor.
And woe betide women and vulnerable folk with no such connections.
Two young girls allegedly assaulted by the Ndichu brothers are former DPP Philip Murgors nieces.
"We demand that the IG assign the investigation to a special team at Police Headquarters who should ensure that the investigations are completed as soon as possible."
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And so maybe the question we should be answering is not who is right and who is wrong.
Maybe the question is how we go from being one to being two, being 3, being 4, and being 5.
How we become hydra.
How we become legion.
/Zagadat
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Super interesting how a random corporate event generated intense convo about potato supply chains, food processing, farmer and labour welfare, agric import and export policy in an agric-centric economy, class access etc.
We teach each other a lot on here. It's really cool.
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- First of all her name is Ann Njoki Kumena, not "woman" 🙄😒
- secondly, it's important to see how matters consent, power, value, and exploitation play out legally, and even more importantly to see wins for the party whose rights were infringed. So glad about this ruling.
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"Because African spirituality inspired Africans to directly challenge the power of colonizers and the Church, they were dismissed as Satanic."
More in this deeply reflective piece below -
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@obaa_boni
It is easy to become defeated and helpless when alone in an abusive situation - please remember the person being abused is ALONE.
If you are overwhelmed trying to help them part time imagine how much more overwhelmed they are, and they are in that personalised hell fulltime.
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People don't starve overnight. Famine and drought are not acute emergencies, they slowbrew and get worse over time. For the state to say "we have food, it can be sent" is a shocking display of neglect and irresponsibility. It means this could have been prevented in good time. 💔
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What we have seen today re. rate of teen pregnancies in Kenya 🇰🇪:
- politics
- moral theatre
- blame games and finger pointing
- bad takes on age of consent
What we have NOT seen at all:
- compassion for the girls
- a breakdown of WHICH men cause these pregnancies
- a plan
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This is why
@obaa_boni
said there are circumstances theory alone cannot cover.
But I want to end with a story.
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Sheila Lumumba.
Edwin Chiloba.
Erica Chandra.
Joash Mosoti.
Other loved ones.
Lives stolen in evil, violent circumstances.
Be welcomed into rest, love and comfort.
May your families be held and supported.
May your justice not delay a moment longer.
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
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@obaa_boni
And so the one iota of hope I am holding onto is the origin story of the Gulabi Gang.
What 1 woman could not do, 5 managed.
We can do infinitely more together, and this includes sharing the very risk involved in fighting the very real monsters in our midst.
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This one needs a medal for being so matter of fact about this hilarious strategy 😂 cc
@ADELLEO
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The projection here is WILD.
To "discipline" a stranger 'as if they are your child' just tells people how violent your child's home life is.
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Children fleeing for their lives from a violent teacher died in a stampede in a Kenyan school.
Now a happy, healthy, supported pregnant minor NOT in crisis - her parents did everything right - is arrested and mysteriously commits suicide.
Kenyan children are being killed. /Thread
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Too many African "national values" centre sex, gender performance, nudity/erotic content, refusing sex ed, etc. Too few African national values centre poverty eradication, access, dignity, trust, honesty, kindness, care for orphans/widows/aged/homeless, justice or black pride.
Zambia deports controversial female South African dancer, Zodwa Wabantu, who is popularly known for performing pantyless, on the grounds that her show would “undermine national values”. Don’t mess with Kenneth Kaunda’s country
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Me, every time a white person says how "articulate" I am:
Did you really colonize my country just so you could, years later, ask me why my English is so good?
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"Why is your penis on a dead girl's phone?"
"So pick ME. Choose ME. Love Me."
"He's not the sun... you are."
"It's a beautiful day to save lives!"
"It's handled."
"I am the hell, and I am the high water."
"Do you want to be a gladiator in a suit?"
Without saying its name, what is a tv show that can be instantly recognized based on one quote?
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Y'all I just remembered that someone out here really said about vibrators "The Bible said Adam and Eve, not Florence and the Machine" and I am going to laugh again for another two weeks 🤣🤣🤣
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At the VERY least, all Zainab's travel costs, her stolen money and the cost of her therapy should be returned to her, plus damages.
May the hotel owner and manager now accusing her of lying meet their own lies on every road they travel, now henceforth until they recant.
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I LOVE her and these kids and this song SOOOOOO much 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
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I've been invited as one of several stakeholders to a meeting now with P&G re. Always pads problems in the Kenyan market, ably illustrated by Kenyans, mostly women, our African sisters and many more on the hashtag
#MyAlwaysExperience
. I am publishing my submission publicly here.
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I worry about blanket assumptions that Gen Z don't know how to suffer, just because they won't suffer the same things in the same ways that olders did.
Stoicism is not a winning strategy.
People will watch you die and praise you for doing it quietly.
GenZ not wanting to be exposed to mildly uncomfortable situations is simply a lack of mental resilience and nothing more. "Protecting my mental health" is a very abused phrase lately. Younger folk cannot handle the slightest adversities.
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Shading young activists about old presidents that your whole generation did not defeat either, as the weather patterns change accross our Continent ravaging whole populations.
This take should have stayed in drafts.
There’s a class of young African activists that’s obsessed with global climate summits and the “global fight against climate change” but yet silent on the fact their country has had the same president since the 80s. You should fix your country before trying to save the world.
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Imagine calling this crock of BS "bold and provocative" when the issue is those abusing and impregnating minors, and lack of access to sexual and reproductive health options.
Imagine wanting to "stomp out" pregnancy, but not rape, sexual violence and gendered disenfranchisement.
‘Funga Miguu Initiative’ - a provocative and bold initiative kicked off in Kajiado South sub county that seeks to stomp out unplanned pregnancies in the area.
#NTVAtOne
@MarkMasai
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Several folk called 'picky eaters' have mild to severe sensitivities that are poorly known and documented. So instead of folks understanding that their bodies interact with certain things poorly, they are called uppity and insulted for doing their best to care for themselves. /1
i hate picky eaters so bad ... at least be willing to try it first loser
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Remembered how I saw an old white woman in a supermarket near my house putting goods in HER BACKPACK.
At the till she took them out of the backpack to pay for them.
I can bet money that not a single black person anywhere would ever be allowed to do that in a supermarket
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It's the quality of the friendship, not the gender of the friend, that matters. ❤️
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Rest in perfect peace, Elianne.
My heart will ALWAYS break when I think about how brave you had to be, and how you were stolen from your family, from your friends, from this earth, long, long before your time. 💔💔💔💔💔
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Sleeping hungry, corruption, femicide and GBV rates, violent homophobia, ableism, ageism, besides a million other things in 🇰🇪, are all akchwally demeaning to Christianity...
Yet nobody's banning daily TV news.
PS. KFCB is not constituted by law to be a religious marking scheme.
KFCB bans gay themed film I Am Samuel, says its demeaning to Christianity
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So. These ones won't test, but take meds anyway, and ALSO make their wives do double runs to the clinic to explain to the doctor that they are getting antivirals for two, but the other one won't come, but he still wants the medicine?
When patriarchy meets stigma: A thesis.
Men sharing HIV drugs meant for their wives
Despite widespread awareness about HIV/AIDS, some men are still trapped in the web of fear for testing and have resorted to sharing drugs with their wives. Details in the New Vision.
#EPAPER
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@smoke_nd_pearlz
The demand for a village to act also tacitly blames the mother for not having a functioning one. This mother asked everyone she could and it still did not work.
So if we focus only on the morality of the refuser, that still doesn't help her. She needs many solutions beyond that.
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There's a lovely human on this TL who did a turning-30 birthday post, and let me tell you Maina, there was absolute chaos in her replies.
Since one of the hats I wear is researcher/professional question asker, I went to see what insights there might be among the shambles.
/Thread
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Use of PR terminology to frame conversation:
1. "seperate development" attempts to call the active violence on non-white people, esp black folks, "development"
2. He apologises for "pain, hurt" not "harm, abuse, death, land theft, segregation, sustained economic marginalisation'
The FW de Klerk Foundation has released a series of videos of his final words.
Watch
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May this continue as essential judicial precedent 💥🔥
Onward and upward
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I guess misogynist marketing to women in this hellscape is a strategy that works for some 😬
God be with those who must use service providers who don't take them, their entire demographic, or any of their challenges seriously 😟
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Daktari, nobody describes clients this way, much less the extra vulnerable like homeless pregnant women in crisis with alleged mental health issues, and not as fake public inspiration that breaches her privacy. You are actively doing harm, and this is reportable malpractice. 🚮
Mad Woman gives Birth to a healthy baby in Bungoma.She ate from the Dustbin during her pregnancy,No antenatal care,unbearable condition gave birth with no medical assistance.But yet the baby comes out healthy, and fine. God will never share his glory with anyone.
@GhettoRadio895
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Very.
Same with footballers and all other athletes finding opportunities that don't exist at home.
Same as all the diaspora Kenyans who left to find work and business opportunities.
Viva to all. Where it works, it works.
5000M Men. Kalenjins running for Bahrain, USA, Uganda,..... Should we be proud?
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I'm watching a Nigerian movie called
#TheWeddingParty
on Netflix and getting MY ENTIRE LIFE from the mother of the bride. My whole life. This woman is the level of extra I aspire to be. She doesn't do anything by halves or with restraint 🔥
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I am feeling the deep collective grief at all the friends who lost friends to abusive or problematic relationships.
So many ugly words have been said, so many hearts have been broken. It is bloody out here.
The collateral damage abusers do beyond their primary targets is infinite
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Survivors of sexual harassment/violence do full LABOUR and pay full COST of surviving.
This is evil and unethical, esp in a society/legal system which actively enables abusers to thrive.
How do we end that?
#BoycottNickMutuma
#BoycottJaazOdongo
But first. Context.
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Men kill women, give flimsy excuses like "it was a kerfuffle" and courts listen to them like they're serious.
No wonder patriarchal societies shout "due process" at abused, violated women and vulnerable folk. They know it's all a lie.
Police officer, who strangled long-term lover after she exposed their affair to his wife, cleared of murder
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@hausofriya
This loser REALLY used the fact that he himself, no gun to his head, chose to propose, to congratulate himself for choosing someone who loves him?
I can't.
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Imagine thinking that the moon landing wasn't "optimised" for the lander regarding uniform, food, and training 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some people honestly cannot deal with the idea of what "optimised" Africans can do. Haaaaay!
They better know. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard.
#Eliud159
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Patriarchy is truly a series of own goals. This is like Inception.
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Let me leave this thought on the timeline today.
One of the things we can get caught up in in trying to live our best feminist values is being right.
But this is not a situation where being right is useful.
Many people already defined "right" in favour of abuse and abusers.
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The African leader whatsapp group must be ON FIRE
Its giving watch and pray for you know not when the enemy is coming ☠️
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Isn't it easier to send the child home or call the parents in for not following rules or whatever?
Couldn't the phone be switched off and confiscated?
This entire, rather bizarre performance - also recorded and uploaded on social media - is someone's very intentional power trip.
Why do parents allow their kids to go to school with cell phones ?
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@Postsubman
He was clearly proposing to her bank account, not to her. He emphasised multiple seperate times, from her account of this event.
The account should be the one to become sentient and reply.
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In retrospect, all things considered, perhaps this was a good deal
In 2001,Jehovah Wanyonyi asked the Kenyan govt to give him Sh 3 billion or he would bring a curse to Kenya.
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