by Nonkosi Tazibona | Apr 18, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY Last week I flipped the world on its axis, giving what I hope was a glimpse of a world where men could menstruate. Today I want to fashion a world where Africa wasn’t colonised but was instead a coloniser. What would happen if African perspectives and...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Apr 11, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY I have never dabbled in satire. I think I should participate in it if it helps illuminate issues or problems that women go through. I’m well aware that the “if men had periods” shtick has been done over and over again, even scoring itself many ai...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Apr 4, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY As an African woman, there’s nothing that I love more than telling African men and women that I am a feminist and watching them immediately scowl or denounce their preconceived notions of myself, whether as feminine or as a normal person in general. Yes, in...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Mar 28, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY *Warning* *Descriptions of assault* There was no way she was sexually assaulted—she’s a prostitute. There was no way she was sexually assaulted—she’s a mattress actress. There was no way she was sexually assaulted—she likes to dress...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Jan 3, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY You don’t know the half of it. Not that we ever know the full extent of anything. I’ll blame that on our humanity and our tendency to be so stuck in our own ways that we are totally unmoving in many more ways than one. But I digress… “I’m just a girl” is a...