Essays & Reflections

Personal, cultural, and philosophical explorations of womanhood, survival, and society. These pieces tie together the threads of lived experience, offering deep reflection on the quiet and loud realities of navigating a patriarchal world.

AGENDA MUST AGEND!: Nigerian X Space and Its Toxic Pseudo-intellectualism

The phrase “agenda must agend” on Nigerian X (formerly Twitter) is not just a cruise statement. It is a revelation disguised as a joke ; an euphemism for the way every critique and every thread is immediately assumed to stem from one’s political or ethnic affiliation. In the X space, neutrality is a myth: every […]

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THE DOUBLE STANDARD: When “What if she lied?” drowns out

“What if she was hurt?” By Nusrat Lasisi ‎ ‎It is gradually becoming the norm for every cry for help, every clamour for justice against sexual violence, to be silenced with nauseating objectivity that quickly produces examples of false rape allegations. Each time a victim speaks, the first public reflex is not to ask, “Is

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BURN THE BRA! A CRITIQUE OF NIGERIAN WOMEN’S GROWING EXHAUSTION IN FACE OF SEXUALIZED COLONIAL LEGACIES

BY NUSRAT LASISI   In 2025, Nigeria witnessed a string of controversies that reignited old battles over women’s bodies, and control. From Nollywood actress Ngozi Ezeonu publicly shaming young women at an audition for not wearing bras, to town criers in Anambra allegedly threatening arrests of women who walked the streets without underwear, to Delta

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