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It’s important to note that what I am about to say is all my personal opinion based on my experiences of gendered approaches to learning. It was a Thursday morning in the middle of winter and we were in a gruelling math lesson. Our teacher had written a problem on the whiteboard and announced, “Shout […]

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From birth I lacked positive women role models. My birth mother hadn’t been equipped with the emotional tools that a young women needs in terms of intimate relationships, which meant that as a result she excused and protected her abusive husbands behaviour in the household. In short she was a “Pick Me.” Her behaviour and […]

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Historically, socially and culturally, hair is a symbol of youth, sexuality and above all, femininity. Baldness on the other hand is often associated with the caricature of the middle-aged man and is not a condition usually aligned with women, especially young women. As an issue that affects such a large proportion of us at some […]

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In the past few years I have watched the natural hair movement grow exponentially. This is something I am happy to see but also something that I heed with apprehension. Despite having had natural hair for near enough my whole life, and being all for positive representation of black women there is something about the […]

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