by Nonkosi Tazibona | Jul 26, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY That shame does not belong to you It’s in the eyes. They are beady. They are leering. They are hungry. They are disrespectful. They are invasive. I was very naïve. I thought of some of them as lovely fathers to look up to. Some, I even idolised and...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | Jul 12, 2025 | Social commentary
via GIPHY I would like to take the stand. Call it a little feeling I had, an epiphany if you will. Granted, most of my rants are epiphanies or maybe I just like to make them epiphanies when they are actually little life plot points I’ve observed as facets embedded...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | May 30, 2025 | Social commentary
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcnZ2amk5cXYxNThwdmFidG96Y3hzZzJucnVwdjg0cnE4cGo5aWplYiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/85n3aAmffE7T6qmZwL/giphy.gif Your hairdresser’s braiding cornrows so tight that she probably included your thoughts in that...
by Nonkosi Tazibona | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
I have never been shy about my love for my hair. However, there was a time when I absolutely despised my hair. I remember all the hours spent in the bathroom washing my hair. I can still feel the knots of my thick 4c hair being a more formidable foe than math ever...
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...
