Stella Nyanzi on Women
born 1974 Uganda
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Good girls and respectable women are trained to avoid taboo topics and “bad words” particularly in their public articulations.
I don't get inspired by high and mighty women, it's everyday women. It's grandmothers, stepmothers, second wives, all swearing at their men.
Double standards demand that feminine respectability bars women from articulating, writing, or deploying words, concepts, and ideas deemed to be taboo subjects.
When I die, I hope my children will be proud of me as a woman who at least tried to change things, instead of just waiting for the dictator to die.
Now, I am sure the poor woman in her grave… is shocked every time I perform my own version of womanhood and femininity