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After Lady Dandbury: For Wives Whose Gardens Never Bloomed
What if marriage as a tool to preserve chastity is just a myth we sell ourselves? So much has been opined about the character of the young Lady Dandbury in the weeks since Netflix/Shondaland’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton story was released. And while I may have a great many opinions — on the make-up choices…
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Three Myths Driving Our Opposition to Sex Ed
Recently, Nigerian lawmakers have spent their time and presumed legislative acumen, paid for by tax money of a citizenship beleaguered by a current economic crisis, arguing about occurrence of the word ‘gay’ (in its original context, ‘happy’) appearing in a nursery primer book. Now, as a middle-aged person raised on said primer (that’s how long…
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Are Period Pains Normal?
A couple of weeks ago, Nigerian Twitter was awash with women tweeting their experiences with period pain. At the time, I did a Twitter thread here that got a lot of engagements over several days, but I always meant to write a more comprehensive post on the topic, as part of a new series I…
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Sexual & Reproductive Health 