Category: Early Writings
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With Time by Kaysy J Gotay
Guess the simplest way to put it is time.. With time I’ve realized none of this is real . You grow up learn a bunch of bullshit & have to reteach yourself truth . With time you begin to drift away, in your own little bubble … People aren’t as interesting anymore, mindsets differ and…
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Too much schooling ruins a woman?
I came across this excerpt while reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s Half of A Yellow son and thought it would be interesting to play devils advocate by mentally speculating on the idea that too much schooling ruins a woman.
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“’Question everything’ they said, ‘Why’, you asked’”
Today we live in a technological society where social media is generally ubiquitous and controls a great deal of our beliefs. Not only are we bits and pieces of the people we interact with or the books we read but we are also fragments of ideas or viewpoints that we have come across on social…
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I may even be ugly, but dear God, I am here
How are we today, Sister? -I am ugly, but I am here. “There is a Haitian saying which might upset the aesthetic images of most women. Nou led, Nou la, it says. We are ugly, but we are here. Like the modesty that is somewhat common in Haitian culture, this saying makes a deeper claim for poor Haitian women than…