by Nonkosi Tazibona | Nov 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
via GIPHY I have a question for you…do you think the femininity that you exude now is the femininity you are initially supposed to exude or is it the one that the world tells you to exude? Come to think of it, even if it’s the one the world tells you to exude does...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Nov 8, 2024 | Social commentary
via GIPHY I have always fully and firmly believed that women have bodily autonomy. SYKE. No, we don’t. I mean we do but the world doesn’t really accept that, does it? It’s the same thing with feminism. We have always been equal to men not lesser, it’s just that we...
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 27, 2024 | Social commentary
via GIPHY Are you black? Yikes. Do you also happen to be African? Then that’s double yikes. I mean I would know, I’m both. Don’t get me wrong I like my melanin coated skin that sparkles in the sun as much as the next Pan African. I love that I hail from the...
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...
