I just paid my rent.
For the first time, it wasn't a handout, or crowdfunding or a gift from a friend.
I paid it from money I earned at my job, writing.
I showed up for myself and today I paid my rent. 💙
Today is Dennis Juma's funeral.
This comrade was shot during the Finance Bill and Ruto must go protests.
If you can show up that will mean a lot to the family.
Getting a P3 at Embu level 5 hospital had me squatting in hospital hallways, crying.
After waiting for 7hrs for a medical legal officer to show up, one called Dr. Ngoroi showed up at around 3pm.
He checked the office door, say it was closed and said he would be back.
/1
I was sexually and physically and sexually assaulted at Zero 14 Lounge in Embu.
The establishment does not have CCTV cameras at the entryway and the bouncer casually abandons his post.
This is not a safe place.
My family is giving out a wheelchair ♿.It belonged to my dad, but now he has wings so it's alright. Took us 1year10months to be able to let go of it and we thank God we are finally there.
In the spirit of whatever is good in this world, if you know someone who needs one ♿, DM.
The person who attacked me was driving KCY 935D, his name is Martin.
I don't know if he is the owner.
Embu police say it is impossible to get that man, what if it was not his car and a lot of nonsense.
Yet another abuser walks free.
I was sexually and physically and sexually assaulted at Zero 14 Lounge in Embu.
The establishment does not have CCTV cameras at the entryway and the bouncer casually abandons his post.
This is not a safe place.
The owner of this establishment has reached out to assist in his capacity.
He says there's CCTV, (the bouncer had said there wasn't on two different occassions.)
Waiting for the footage to be availed.
I was sexually and physically and sexually assaulted at Zero 14 Lounge in Embu.
The establishment does not have CCTV cameras at the entryway and the bouncer casually abandons his post.
This is not a safe place.
I am in between houses,
Sina hata Fuliza.
Can't take care of the smallest bills.
I am stuck in one place (mostly the house) because moving around is money I don't have.
I've not had a steady income since Oct 2022.
I have panic and anxiety attacks thinking about money.
If you can afford to be alive,
To pay your bills, take care of your needs.
If you have room to indulge in wants.
Please whisper gratitude to your ancestors and the universe. 🙏
I woke up to a miracle today.
And I have received so much love since I posted about what I was going through yesterday, financially too.
Today, I get to pack up my house and move out of Embu permanently.
This is something I have wanted to do since end of 2022
The officer in charge of my assault case, one Mr. Langat at Embu police station told me I should have given the Doctor something and told them what to write if I wanted my case to move forward.
He reiterated the same sentence yesterday.
Why is corruption so comfortable?
/5
Today I sold plants. 🤗
Someone found me on here, reached out and made a purchase.
I appreciate your patronage, sir.
And he got himself and told his friends about me and they bought.
My last buyer before today's was two weeks ago.
Pray, tell, I would like Dr. Ngoroi to clarify, what is this money needed to get a P3 form signed?
Why did this Dr. who was absent from that post all day come briefly and attend to those who had that money.
A lady we had been with said she paid 1K to get hers signed.
It's everyone's and everything's fault, but the abusers'. 😕😕
You call out;
1. Naughty kids
2. Bad parenting
3. Smart phones
4. Content.
This is how abuse continues, if you aren't mentioning the abuser, you are shielding them😏
You are enabling an abusive system. 😏
Oh,
And when I went back to the police station with a filled P3, before Officer Langat looked at it ro determine whethere it coukd stand in court, he asked what my case was.
Then said he doesn't deal with issues of violence involving alcohol.
He is a Christian.
After spending all of Monday at Embu Level 5, I woke up on Tuesday to try again.
In comes Dr. Dennis Mwenda.
He was rude, shouted at me, and then asked.
"Why wasn't your P3 form signed yesterday?"
I told him the labour ward emergency, it was really a matter of incompetence.
/3
He then asked me to leave the consultation room as he went to check on an emmergency at the labour room, he would be back.
This was around 5pm.
At 6:30pm, I called to ask if he was still coming back and he very rudely said he was not.
After another 1 and a half hours, we had to go looking for him, again.
This man, signed only saw a few of us.
When I got the consultation room, Dr. Ngoroi asked me if I had come with money to get my P3 signed.
I asked him what he meant, and he shrugged.
/2
A lot of heartbreaking things have happened to me since Saturday night, but the process of filing a case initiating the process to try and get justice broke me.
How horrible it is for already traumatized individuals to be mlre traumatized by the system!!
Shame.
This Mwenda doctor kept saying while writing my P3, "I have written what you have said."
I have never taken a P3, why are my words what you put on a piece of paper?
When I took the P3 back the cops, they said it wasn't worth much, it was filled wrong.
/4
The audacity of the man who assaulted me to call me and gaslight me.
The nerve of a friend of one of the mentioned people who didn't do their jobs to reach to me to sell me fear.
#NotMySilence
If you can afford to be alive,
To pay your bills, take care of your needs.
If you have room to indulge in wants.
Please whisper gratitude to your ancestors and the universe. 🙏
I will say, so that I say.
To the moral police in my comments on the thread about the assaults I experienced, you are talking to air.
I don't care what you think a woman should do, or where they should be, or where you believe we belong.
This is my world too.
I will say, so that I say.
To the moral police in my comments on the thread about the assaults I experienced, you are talking to air.
I don't care what you think a woman should do, or where they should be, or where you believe we belong.
This is my world too.
"I was not raped. I was not sick. The pregnancies did not threaten my life. I did not already have children. I just did not want to be pregnant. I did not want to have a child.'
If you'd like to support my pursuit for justice, I need money for a lawyer.
You can help me achieve this by;
- reposting the quoted tweet.
- Tell your riends about Everything Plants,
- Purchase a plant, decor rocks, and pebbles.
Thank you 🙏
Today I woke up wondering, why people I had loved for 6 years and given my very best would decide I wasn't worth anything, not even the opportunity to speak my truth.
This heartbreak will take a while to heal. 😩😩😩
#2018SoFarTaughtMe
Elevation requires separation. Some relationships you hold on to hold you back from your intended destiny. For you to grow, you need to cut some people off. Some strings need to break.. Some chains need to be lose.
I woke up to a miracle today.
And I have received so much love since I posted about what I was going through yesterday, financially too.
Today, I get to pack up my house and move out of Embu permanently.
This is something I have wanted to do since end of 2022
“For As Long As Patriarchy Can Shroud Abortion With Silence It Will Continue To Stamp It In Shame”
Mona Eltahawy On Sharing Our Stories To Protect Women’s Rights.
Last week, I took over
@DuaLipa
's Service95 newsletter, which is published in 9 languages, with an essay on abortion. You can now read it on FEMINIST GIANT.
I find comfort in knowing that this journey Kenya has started will be completed.
We will remove the corrupt from power, we will reclaim all they have stolen, they will be jailed.
#RutoMustGo
#NaneNaneMarch
#NaneNane
1/5 A boy in my school was sexually harassed. The environment is not open so things like this are discussed in a high hush tone. I asked my superiors what they would do to defend him and they all didn't have tangible solutions, they all said it should be left to....
5/5 Now I am pending and all I am hoping is that I make it through this a good and courageous person willing to stand up for injustice.
#IkoKaziKE
I need a job.
I have a degree in Education, English/Literature. I am innovative, creative, hardworking and competent.
Hey guys, thanks for sharing my post. My family is really grateful. My dad must be looking down proud of all the, love and concern shared. Wish we could help all those people but unfortunately we can't at the moment.
The wheelchair will go to;
@IAmWahuKariuki
Hello. My grandma got a bad stroke? She has never walked since. I/we carry her whenever she wants to move. Help out on 0707367778.
Regards
The weakest links are the women who have internalized misogyny and made it a norm. The women who condone and protect partriachy.
I will not be silenced.!!
I will not bow!
I will be heard!!
Revolution is a woman.
#StopKillingUs
#TotalshutdownKE
#Justiceforivy
@DbossRules
@ThePopeOfSauce
@LSilentN
@FluffyAkara
@ascaniospread
It isn't about that one guy who acknowledges your natural look is beautiful. It is about all those years of being told what beauty should look like that it has now become part of our lives.. We are unlearning it though..
Hey,
I am Magister.
A lover of plants.
My current path allows me to share this adoration with you.
I sell houseplants.
They bring so much light to a space and they take care of you as you do them. The first time you notice a new leaf growing will be joyous.
I promise.
Lack takes away power.
You can't move, there are no punches left to throw, no moves to make.
You know you just had your last and unless a miracle happens, there is nothing left, you are done.
I pray I never lack, again😩😞😪
The timeline is filled with people mourning. The deaths have been here for a while, it's the lost hope that engulfs the day. You can see the anguish of people realizing there is nothing left to do, that the Kenyan leadership discarded it's people in the forest of death/1
Hey
@NationMediaGrp
, my name is Wahu Kariuki and Iam a writer. I have read Mwalimu Andrew's pieces for as long as I can remember and his hilarity about the going on in a staff room are quite accurate. It would be my pleasure to work with him through you.
@Wordslinger_C
After my short career as a teacher, I will always listen to kids when they express frustrations about school. The Kenyan high school system is designed to break people. Students deserve peace.
May those intending to harm peaceful protestors suffer the consequences of the violence they wish upon Kenyans.
May more police people lose their hands, may they choke on the teargas, may they shoot each other.
#NaneNaneMarch
#RutoMustGo
If you see this, please repost my pinned tweet.
I am entrepreneur with no bandwidth to do the marketing part of the process at the moment, but i still must eat.
Thank you 🙏
What do I want?
Right now?
To get into a food comma and drink myself into a stupor.
I want to escape.
I want to be numb.
It's been an extremely long week with heavy emotions.
I want to stop feeling, even for a second.
I am running errands.
This makanga tries touching my hand, I move.
The next one tries the same, and succeeds.
I ask him not to.
I can hear, no need to touch me.
He calls me maringo, it's just a hand, why do I think I am special?
STOP TOUCHING PEOPLE!!!!!
The person who attacked me was driving KCY 935D, his name is Martin.
I don't know if he is the owner.
Embu police say it is impossible to get that man, what if it was not his car and a lot of nonsense.
Yet another abuser walks free.
@Kurlycheeks
People usually have a problem with small business owners. Like ingekuwa supermarket au Jumia no one would have even bothered to look for the wholesale price.
But no.. A small person, with no brand name.. They are not allowed to have the nerve to get that much profit.
Humans. 😒
The owner of this establishment has reached out to assist in his capacity.
He says there's CCTV, (the bouncer had said there wasn't on two different occassions.)
Waiting for the footage to be availed.
I was in Embu longer than planned.
The idea had been to visit for the weekend, be with friends, laugh, and commune with the falls.
I left on Thursday, feeling defeated, drained, and heartbroken.
Travelling to the Coast with family, friends for a vacation and would like some tasty food as you enjoy your vacation,Get to book me as your private Chef and also hire me for catering events indoors or outdoor countrywide .September to December bookings are ongoing 0715295019
#2018SoFarTaughtMe
loving yourself is the best thing you can do. Invest your time and, money on you. Your happiness can only cone from within, cultivate it.
Yesterday I lived through a day I had been living for.
The 'if I make it here I'll know I made it out of the trenches, I'll know things are aligning. I'll know I am not stuck in hopelessness anymore.'
So grateful 💙🙏
Hello beautiful people,
I've been doing this writing thing for a while now. Maybe you've seen my work maybe not. This is a link to my portfolio, if you like what you see and would like to work together, feel free to contact me.
Thanks.
#IkoKaziKE
Is your breathing lighter? Now that you don't have to shrink and adjust to make others comfortable?
Does you skin fit better? Now that you don't have to suffocate it with conformity?
Dear teachers, my employer refused to pay me for March and he has dismissed me indirectly. Hachukui simu.
Please always ask for a letter of appointment. Ile Giza nimeona sijawai ona tena.
#IkoKaziKE
This looks like chicken, but it really is a sign of overcoming. We made it through the storm, now that our boat is steady, how about some good food?
Magister's Kitchen is back, ready to take your lunch orders 😊😊