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EXHALE

It was one of those slow days with very minimal buzz of activities till I logged unto to social media and saw the news trending of the man who committed

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WE ARE HERE.

“If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” – Zora Neale Hurston February 16, 2017, I was privileged to be at a symposium organised

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NOT JUST A STORY (Part 2)

Previously on NOT JUST A STORY… * “Are you now sleeping with men?” Mother had asked. The words startled me as a wave of guilt crashed about inside me. I stared

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NOT JUST A STORY

“Are you now sleeping with men?” Mother asked. I spun around in shock, dropping the knife I was using to chop carrots. The question hit me so hard, that for

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THE OTHER WO-MAN?

I can almost equate this feeling to that of a grieving woman who lost her husband to cancer and her only son to war in some faraway land from home.

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MY LIFE HAS JUST BEGUN

June 2015 We’d had no light or water in school for a couple of weeks, and students, being the mad dogs they were, went on rampage. That night, it was

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Five Signs That You Are Biphobic

Originally published on queerty.com When it comes to the LGBTQ acronym, there’s one group that is routinely left out of the discussion: Bisexuals. For whatever reason, many queer people are still hesitant

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MANIAC UNDER THE INFLUENCE

I have quite a number of fuck buddies. Basically friends with benefits, no strings attached. No emotional entanglements whatsoever. However, one of them stands out. His name is Frankie. Frankie

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“After Praying For Me, The Pastor Had Gay Sex With Me.” | TIERs Presents ‘Veil of Silence’, A Documentary On The Lives Of LGBT Persons In Nigeria

Few days before the infamous Same Sex Prohibition Act was signed into law by former President Goodluck Jonathan, The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) filmed a documentary titled Veil of

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ENTRIES OF MY HEART

Dear Diary, I saw him today. He’d stopped by the window as I was trying to cram cases for my Law of Contract exam. He smiled at me, his lips