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Institutions have never truly hated sex.
They hate honesty.
What they despise is not desire, but desire that refuses to kneel, confess, or pretend it doesn’t exist.
So instead of eliminating pleasure, which history has shown to be impossible, they perfected something far more efficient: cognitive dissonance.
A spiritual technology so advanced it al...
Earlier this year, I shared a photo on X of myself drinking tea at an outdoor cafe in Mogadishu. My main argument, written in response to a discussion about Somalia’s masculine cafe culture, was that although there are no laws explicitly restricting women’s use of public space, they still face deep, informal, cultural, and social barriers that shape how they can exist in the ...
This opinion piece is inspired by a short critical article written by a friend from many moons ago, Seble Teweldebirehan. Sebli and I met in 2015 when ...
In July 1985, Nairobi hosted the United Nations’ World Conference on Women (Nairobi ‘85), which assessed the achievements of the UN Decade for Women. The first such conference ever held on African soil opened the door to placing African struggles against colonialism, authoritarian...
The violence of our age isn’t just in wars or laws, but in how we have learned to live with them, how we scroll past them on our phones before bed. The internet has made everything visible, but it has also made everything hollow. We see genocide, femicide, labour strikes, police brutality, and still we go to work the next morning. That’s part of the design: this constant over...
