by Nonkosi Tazibona | May 16, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY I’m a woman. Duh. Getting harassed, cat-called and hunted is the norm. Well, it shouldn’t be the norm but it is, unfortunately. I’m in university now. While men still harass me, it happens less often and I’m relieved. But that relief is also infuriating....
by Nonkosi Tazibona | May 2, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY Today I want to talk about sexism. Give me a standing ovation. Sigh. Isn’t that just…I don’t know, fun? I’m not big on gender wars. Frankly, I think they are stupid. I don’t like to compare two awful constructs by dubbing one as the lesser evil, yet here we...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Apr 25, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY Pssst…psssst…yes, you are you aware that there’s a tired whisper circling in certain corners of the internet, gaining traction among self-proclaimed “culture warriors” ? According to them anything that features people of colour and in our case, black people...
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...
