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My Telegram channel turned 7 yesterday!
In that time, I’ve shared 2,607 essays about topics like tech, geopolitics, philosophy, cultural critique, and so much more.
If you like to read (esp. essays), JOIN, tell a friend to tell a friend, and RT widely!
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This is why people crying “educate me” in a discussion/debate should almost always be treated as the derailers and trolls that they are.
They don’t really want to learn. They just want to derail and distract.
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Instead of saying “nobody is talking about X” or “nobody is doing Y” ask “where can I find people talking about X, or doing Y?”
Avoid erasing the work others are doing. Just because you don’t know about it doesn’t mean it’s not happening/doesn’t exist.
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Terry Crews is evidence of what I said recently:
Whenever you fight for men, remember that when your time comes, men won’t fight for you.
Nothing good comes out of caping for men.
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@W_Asherah
This, as a rule, is why I reduce my interactions with them/avoid them where possible. Let them languish in their miserable ways, I have no desire to engage. What a nasty way to live.
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Stop being baited on Twitter in 2020.
When you see an obviously bad tweet designed to get the OP maximum attention by weaponising outrage, IGNORE IT.
Suffocate those tweets by denying them the oxygen that is your RTs, Quote Replies, Comments or Likes.
Don’t be anybody’s fool.
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THREAD: Kenya's systemic failure nearly killed me and 18 other people yesterday.
I was driving home at 9.15 to beat the curfew, and couldn't use my preferred routes home because of the expressway construction.
It was raining heavily, but I was ok until I got to Nairobi West.
I almost died by drowning today.
My car was also almost completely submerged in water, I have hypothermia, me and the people I was stranded with had to fight off thieves, and I got home slightly over an hour ago after being stranded since 9.30pm smelling of sewage water.
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You know, the person who was in charge of buying shows for KTN in the late 90s/early 2000s (esp. the shows that screened after 10 pm) had very good taste.
That's where I learned about Oz, The Twilight Zone, Desperate Housewives, Prison Break, and many more.
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This is the most successful protest I have ever attended. This was amazing, take a bow KE feminists.
Thank you to everyone who made it happen. Everyone who supported it in any way.
We are one step closer to living in the world of our dreams.
#EndFemicideKE
#TotalShutDownKE
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Uhuru says VAT on fuel will be reduced from 16% to 8%. “At least it’s reduced”
Kagame releases Ingabire while still imprisoning Rwigara. “At least he’s released one woman”
Museveni asked about unemployment. “At least you’re alive”
East Africa: The Home of At Least.
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People BEEN queer!!
Y’all just hate to see it! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Turns out famed skeletons of 'Lovers of Modena' were both dudes
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Do you guys realize what Cardi has done?!
From “a hoe never gets cold” going viral on Vine, to IG fame, to Love and Hip Hop, to Best Rap Album!
She is the first woman to win it solo!
My goodness
@iamcardib
you are an ICON!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
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If I’m remembered as nothing else, I hope to always be remembered as a Kenyan feminist.
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People don’t know what to do now that (Black) women have (some) money and WILL absolutely blacklist your travel destination because of their experience(s) there.
Bbz, if they do much as look at you badly, come tell us so that we don’t go. Then we’ll tell everyone we know.
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A life hack that has served me well since I started using it in 2012: just ask.
No matter how absurd you think your request is, you need to ask.
Your odds of getting what you want increase in orders of magnitude by doing that one simple thing.
Not asking is self sabotage.
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I am so emotional…when I compare the marches we were organising/attending when I was 19 and this? I’m so glad our message is out there. I’m so glad we’re no longer a couple of voices.
We have grown. We are legion. I told my babe, look around. All those years have led to this.
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Kenyan men posting that more men than women are murdered in KE goes to show that they have the intellectual capacity of amoeba.
1. Who is murdering those men? Overwhelmingly, it’s other men.
2. Femicide is the murder of women BECAUSE they are women. It’s the final form of GBV.
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The treatment of African people in China is yet another example of why I do not believe in “POC solidarity”.
Non-black people of colour will take every opportunity to be anti-black, while justifying their racism and coopting Black people’s efforts.
We been knew.
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Let us always remember that Benito Mussolini (one of its originators) described fascism THE MERGING OF STATE AND CORPORATE POWER.
Fascists are always good for big business. For everyone else? Absolutely not.
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Happy birthday to Beyoncé, and my favourite album from her!!
This is my favourite Beyoncé song of all time!!
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I DID IT!!!
I finished my MSc in Public Policy & Administration and I’M GRADUATING WITH A DISTINCTION!!
I’m so happy/proud of myself & what I’ve achieved this year amid a global pandemic.
Thank you to everyone who’s supported me in this journey, I’m only just getting started!
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The enumerator asked about Huduma Number, ID and personal identifiers.
We all declined to answer, and said “The census is a voluntary exercise. We wish not to answer those questions. Furthermore, those questions are not approved in the Statistics Act.”
It worked.
#census2019
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I almost died by drowning today.
My car was also almost completely submerged in water, I have hypothermia, me and the people I was stranded with had to fight off thieves, and I got home slightly over an hour ago after being stranded since 9.30pm smelling of sewage water.
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Daniel Arap Moi literally stole my generation’s present and future.
He inculcated a dangerous culture of fear and silence, which are the reasons Kenyans are still unable to build movements.
His is a legacy of death and destruction. Do not sanitize him just because he is dead.
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It’s so weird watching Hasan Minhaj and realising that’s what many of us hoped Trevor Noah would be.
But he chooses to make cheap “Africa” jokes despite his huge platform, while Hasan is able to centre his people even as he talks about the world.
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Gabriel was right. They will not believe.
I barely believe myself…I am gobsmacked.
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Fuck anyone who's ever been President, Deputy/Vice President, CS, Minister, PS, MP, Senator or Governor in this country.
Anyone who's led us here.
And if you fuck with them, it's fuck you too.
It's only a matter of time before this country tries/succeeds at killing you.
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Sexism is the theory/ideology. Misogyny is the praxis.
Patriarchy is the system.
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I cannot believe that this needs saying in 2019, but here goes:
Just because something is not a problem for you PERSONALLY doesn’t mean it’s not a big problem/crisis.
THREAD.
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A few thoughts about the recent tech layoffs.
1. I'm going to call back to a similar event that happened in the in the USA with the automobile industry.
We start in 1914, Henry Ford more than doubles his workers' pay from $2.34 to $5.
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@YaaAsantewaaBa
Serious question: will she have to change her name and move? Cause that’s the only way I can see her staying safe. 😔
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I’m grateful that I am actually going to one of the best schools in the world debt free (and without asking my folks for money), that I got the apartment I wanted in the part of London I wanted, and that the past few months have been amazing beyond my imagination. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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It really breaks my heart, because this is how
#MyDressMyChoice
came about when we did it in 2014.
Back then, the perpetrators were men in the matatu industry.
Now, it’s men who ride boda bodas.
But the violence? It’s still the same.
8 years later. A day before
#IWD
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Happy 30th birthday to me!!!
OMG I have always been so excited and ready to enter my 30s!
My 20s were fantastic, but I just KNOW that my 30s will be PHENOMENAL. 😀😀
Mostly because I’ll do my best to make it happen, and I am still the baddest bitch I know!
Happy birthday B!
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If the dead were terrible then please SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD.
If they cared about how they would be remembered, they would have been better people when they were alive.
Those telling you not to are afraid because they’ve believe death will sanitize them. Let’s kill that belief.
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My heart goes out to all the older women who were promised big things if they toed the patriarchal line, only to find out they were deceived.
It must hurt to see many young women refuse these lies-this is why you police them- but there is good news:
You too can free your mind.
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Friends!
Great news: I’ll be going to LSE for my Masters in Public Policy and Administration this September!
What’s even better? I got a full ride scholarship! (Amb. E.O. Kolade Scholarship + an LSE Masters Award)!!
I’m so stoked!
Pod will be back on 25th for one more round!
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I love the smell of menz fear and the taste of menz tears in the morning!!
Good job everyone, let’s keep it that way.
They can either respect us because we are human beings with human rights, or because they fear us.
Me? I’m happy with the fear.
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You know that subliminally, they’re attacking Ombachi because he makes them look bad? You know that, right?
Because they think he’s doing too much as a father and they need to cut him down to size, you know that, right? That’s all it is.
But they can’t say that, so…
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Yelled when I saw the line 😂😂😂😂😂
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I just told my mother that I’m going on the telly to defend women and queer people’s rights and she told me she supports me, and can’t wait to watch.
She also care through with multiple tips.
I am so emotional I could die.
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STEALTHING IS RAPE.
When someone consents to sex with a condom and you take the condom off without their knowledge (or don’t put one on to begin with) YOU ARE A RAPIST.
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What the US election is teaching me is that Twitter can actually take decisive action on misinformation and online violence, yet when we engage them as policy practitioners about online violence against women/sex & gender minorities, they claim they’re trying their best.
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Congratulations to my sister on becoming an associate at one of Kenya’s top law firms!
Fam, can you imagine we did it? My mother successfully put us through the best schooling she could, and me and my bbz have kicked ass so damn much?
Congratulations babe, we’re proud of you!
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Kenyans, we're all we've got.
The people who came through for me were the ones in the mess with me. The cab drivers who waited until my mum/the flatbed arrived.
The people who give to harambees/mutual aid.
Whenever you come through for others, you save their lives. Thank you.
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Anyway, sharrats to Ian Njoroge for being a catalyst to this. Folks may not see the connection but I promise you it’s there.
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When discussing privilege, it’s almost as if people have forgotten one of its fundamental aspects:
PRIVILEGE IS UNEARNED ADVANTAGE.
It is not based on any “hard work” or “effort.”
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Patriarchy has lied to women that their ultimate worth is realised when they get married and have kids.
The menz they are supposed to marry are here on the TL saying their wives are strangers/not family.
If this doesn’t make y’all divest from marriage, I don’t know what will.
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That feeling when you go through a five stage recruitment/interview process and get the job!
Here I am, unwell and having lost my voice, but I thought I deserved to sit outside and enjoy a glass of wine! 😀😀😀
Here’s to the new journey!
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Graduated undergrad
Worked on a political campaign
Moved to India
Worked @ crowdfunding SocEnt
Moved back to KE
Cofounded a journal
Copublished 4 books
Opened a fashion store
Started a podcast
Won multiple fellowships/awards
Spoken/taught worldwide
Moved to UK
Started Grad School
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Remember when they called Jeremy Corbyn “extreme”?
My god...everything we were told wasn’t possible suddenly is.
Matt Hancock announced the Government is writing off £13.4 billion of historic NHS debt
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Kenyans:
Many times, it’s not “privilege talking.”
Or “privilege blinding them.”
It’s contempt.
People making statements like Oliver Mathenge’s and Makodingo’s are not simply “misguided.”
It’s intentional. That’s how they see you.
Let’s have deeper analyses of power.
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Women are out here being sexually assaulted and raped, and people’s main concern is image.
“You’re ruining X place’s image.”
“I went to Y country and didn’t experience that.”
Who asked you, Josephat?
Shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
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Can any public interest litigator find Eunice and sue HomeBoyz, Shaffie Weru, Joe Mfalme and Neville whoever?
This is an open shut case. This is why I want to become an advocate.
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Please expand your feminism to the margins.
Past your middle class cis-heteronormative reality and experiences.
To the non-binary.
The trans.
The lesbian.
The bisexual.
The gay.
The queer.
The poor.
The disabled.
Feminism does not revolve around you only.
Please expand it.
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There is no freedom or true choice for women under patriarchy.
SK Macharia is a direct beneficiary of his sister’s pain and suffering. No amount of “taking care of her” changes that.
We don’t know what she would have become because she wasn’t given a chance. Horrible.
Dr S.K Macharia: I want to tell you a story about my older sister Njeri. She did not go to school. She was sold when she was very young to an old man who would pay my fees in primary school…Now she says she did not learn because of me. But I take care of her 100%
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They know it is gendered violence.
They’re not arguing because they don’t know.
They’re arguing because they don’t care.
Derailment of your conversation and efforts is the goal.
Cruelty is the point.
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Legit question to Kenyan parents:
Why have children if your major goal for them is to suffer like you did and “build character”?
Why have children if you don’t plan to listen to them and create a healthy environment for them to grow up in?
Really, why do you lot have kids?
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Got it!
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@FribergMadeAGay
Some people have to be left behind. If there are people who can be convinced to be bigoted and unjust by YT and conspiracy theories, I have no desire to save them. They can be left in the past.
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Today I’m reminded that teargas is an endocrine disruptor, because I feel period cramps with no period in sight.
For those who experience a disruption in their cycles, or any other hormonal function after protesting this week, this is worth noting.
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Let no one lie to you that degrees no longer matter...I'm yet to graduate, but my MSc plus my prior experience are allowing me to build the career of my dreams, play in the big leagues, and work with global policy actors.
Esp. if you're a minority? Get that education if you can.
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It just hit me…I’m going to have everything I want this year.
All of it.
I don’t have to choose because I can make all of it happen.
I am capable of anything I put my mind to.
I’ve done it before, and I can do it again.
I’ll return to this on 31 Dec and it shall be so.
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If “Dinner with Jay Z” was a challenge:
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The unsaid part, that Giraffe Manor said out loud:
The "charm" of many of Kenya's tourist destinations is that Black Kenyans are visible only as servants. These places are for people's inner settler colonialists.
Next time you say racism isn't an issue in Kenya, remember this.
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Men benefit from marriage way more than women do.
-It aids their career progression
-It gives them “free” and unequal labour in the home
-It gives them someone to drain life out of (marriage extends men’s lives and shortens women’s)
It’s why we must divest from marriage.
Men leaving comments of how they want to marry you in pics just proves that men are obsessed with marriage than they’d like to admit.
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Kenyan women and queers:
As you may know, pepper spray/mace is illegal in Kenya.
Last week, I learnt from a trainer that hairspray has a similar effect. It may not be as powerful, but it really stings. Most importantly, it’s legal and cheaper.
Remember to aim for the eyes.
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How fitting that a woman judge should be the one to lift a ban on another woman’s film about love between two women.
My heart. ❤️❤️❤️
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Good afternoon to women and queer people ONLY.
I love y’all! ❤️❤️❤️
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This is exactly the kind of extra I’ll be once I write my PhD thesis in future.
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Women on the TL having a serious discussion on the tampon shortage in KE.
Men in their mentions making comments that make it clear that they should, in fact, have just been a period.
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It’s finally the end of a wild and beautiful ride
@LSEnews
!!
Today
@LSEGovernment
’s class of 2020 graduates, 2 years later! We did it!!
My award: MSc in Public Policy and Administration WITH DISTINCTION!!
Congratulations to us, and to me! Better act like you know!
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The thing about abusive people is that they work very hard to maintain a positive reputation with other parties excluding the abused.
Which is why telling people about their behaviour (if you can) is important. They thrive on silence. So if you can, tell everyone.
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Men really think they are innovative and original thinkers.
You think no victim of abuse has thought of calmly looking their abuser in the eye and saying no?
Spare us please.
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It’s mostly straight men harassing people on the Repeal 162 hashtag.
I don’t expect much (if any) good from menz, but you have to wonder...what are they so afraid of?
Why are they so pressed?
No one is trying to have sex with you Polycarp. Get it together.
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My exams are officially OVER!!!!
And my first grade is in, and it's a distinction baby!!!
Today's a good day, taking time off to relax until tomorrow and from Friday, it's back on the dissertation grind! The goal is to make it rain distinctions!
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This obsession with “neat” locs (aka dreadlocks) that has people in the salon every 2 weeks retwisting will result in traction alopecia by age 40 bbz.
Let your hair be.
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My dissertation basically provided a formula for electing women for the National Assembly in Kenya whether or not we pass the enacting legislation for the two-thirds gender principle.
It focused on post-2010 elections, and I’m really happy with my findings. 😀😀😀
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The thought that this can be on a jav in Nairobi blows my mind 😀
The fact that being called a feminist has lost its power as a slur/accusation in Nairobi (and hopefully all of KE soon) enough that a jav crew would want to have this as a message?
Feminists we up again!!
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Hmm, so Ezekiel Mutua is pro-incest but against Akothee showing her legs.
Tracks.
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Anyway, as you sanitize Moses Kuria, please remember:
-That’s how you ended up with Sonko
-That’s how you ended up with Waititu
-That’s how you ended up with Ruto
-That’s how you ended up with Uhuru
Carry on.
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I’m putting this out there. Some day I’ll be Minister of Sports and Heritage in this country, and with everything in me I’ll do right by our artists and athletes. 🙏🏽
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Anyway, if you're an African capitalist reading today's TL, my advice is to invest in care homes for old people, because these advocates of child abuse are going to need somewhere to grow old when their kids opt out of that cycle of abuse.
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Is it Taruri they’re targeting?
It’s simple. She’s gorgeous and happy, living life on her own terms. She’s also not insecure about herself.
That sort of shit upsets Kenyan immensely. They’re a miserable lot, and they’re extremely insecure. To see a woman happy is like poison.
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I ran one of Kenya’s most “serious” podcasts for 3 years.
I’ll tell you that:
1. Spaces will not replace talk radio. Neither will podcasts.
2. Every “serious” radio show that has attempted to discuss “issues” recently has failed.
People want escapist content. Can’t blame them.
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Look unemployment in the eye and refuse it. 🤷🏾♀️
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Last night at a new spot:
Man: Why are you ladies sitting alone?
Me: We are not alone. We are together. We are people.
Man: *glitches*
Me: Enjoy your night, goodbye.
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I’m putting on my political science hat. This is a thread on politics, policy and femicide.
1. Your male elected representatives represent women too.
Your President?
Deputy President?
Governor?
Member of the National Assembly?
Senator?
MCA?
ALL OF THEM REPRESENT WOMEN.
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Hello new followers!
This is a notice that I am a rabid/militant/toxic feminist and as such I will not stand for any misogyny, homophobia or transphobia.
I am also quite rude.
If this is not your jazz (many of you are menz) please unfollow.
Thank you.
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Friends:
Please stop engaging in back and forths with people trying to derail the
#EndFemicideKE
#TotalShutDownKE
march/conversation.
They’re clutching at straws because it was a bonafide success. Much of it is driven by envy, because they can never do what was done yesterday.
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Sis just impregnated all of us just like that...I hope she has child support money. 😭😭😭😭😭
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Let no one lie to you that romance is dead in Nairobi…the number of romantic picnics happening?! The elaborate planning? Msidanganywe!!
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It’s over, it’s done! The challenge has been won! 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️
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Kenyan womxn:
I want you to be angry. I need you to be angry.
I need you to see how much these men hate us. I need you to understand that they’re serious.
I need you to know that they will kill or rape you and say you deserved it.
And I need you to treat them accordingly.
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Hello friends:
Please share with me the accounts or websites that originated the lies about Ivy Wangechi (the HIV infection story) and Christine Maonga (that the AP officer had paid her fees).
Screenshots and links will do. Thank you.
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That same police station (Nungwi) is the same one that threatened to have me deported from TZ back to Kenya for the crime of hanging out with a large crowd of foreigners and apparently not explaining what I was doing there well enough (I was there for Sauti za Busara).
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