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...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Dec 20, 2024 | Social commentary
via GIPHY Hear me out readers, you or should I say society absolutely abhors an unrelatable woman? Whatever do I mean? Well, there’s a high chance you scoff when a woman does something that is considered unrelatable or odd. Simply put, society detests women who don’t...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Oct 25, 2024 | Social commentary
via GIPHY I don’t understand why people are ashamed of menstruation…even just talking about it is unfathomable. There, I said it, point, blank, period. (Haha, see what I did there?) I know that society has always had an aversion for periods. I clocked the shame that...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Sep 6, 2024 | Social commentary
When Culture Becomes A Noose. via GIPHY I was sitting under an avocado tree as one of my favourite hairdressers went to town doing my hair. She was clutching her crotchet tools, hooking my faux locs into the braided sections of my hair when a 20-year-old woman looked...
