Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia nearly twenty years before. The novel follows the lives of the former activists, now married and seemingly settled into middle class life with a teenage son and a close circle of friends. The central themes are ...
Four men in South Africa have been sentenced for the murder of a 19-year-old lesbian woman. She was stabbed and stoned to death in 2006. The court found that the girl was targeted due to her sexual orientation. Cases like this sadly are not uncommon in South Africa. The Human Rights Watch claimed that ...
Have you ever witnessed a guy suffering from a condom that is too tight? I have. And it looks like a wedding ring was attempted to be pushed down on their dick. And then it breaks. Legal drama has begun over this exact issue. Apparently, condoms made in China are not big enough for the ...
Child birth is supposed to be the miracle of life, but the women who have gone through it know that it’s only a miracle once the pain-relieving hormones have kicked in after the baby is out. Before that, it’s pretty painful and can be dangerous, so special care needs to be put in ensuring a ...
Say what you will about the United Nations’ efficiency, they made a huge advance today by recognizing sexual orientation and gender identity as essential human rights to protect. The 47-member Human Rights Council voted 23 in favor and 19 against (with 3 abstentions) for a resolution put forward by South Africa to review discrimination against ...
It’s not uncommon now for women to reach the top echelons of companies and large corporations, but the scale still tips in men’s favour. In South Africa the Gender Equality Bill is attempting to even the playing field by making sure women have half the top jobs. Women’s Minister Lulu Xingwana is strongly backing the ...
An “epidemic of brutal homophobic attacks” is developing in South Africa, with its latest victim laid to rest yesterday. Noxolo Nogwaza, a 24-year-old lesbian activist, was bludgeoned to death last week. She was stabbed, stoned and gang-raped. Her unrecognizable body was discovered in an alleyway in the township of Kwa Thema, her face disfigured by ...
A woman arranged for her daughter to be raped because she wanted to be a grandmother. This disgusting act was committed in South Africa by a man named Finus Fetnadi and the mother of the victim who can’t be named. Apparently the mother ordered Fetnadi to not use a condom. Now the daughter, 24, has ...
Kids as young as 13 might get tested for HIV at school in South Africa. This plan has been criticized by teachers and student but officials think it’s a good idea. South Africa has the highest infection rates in the world and ensuring young people get tested is one way to make sure they are ...
Millicent Gaika was bound, strangled, and raped for five hours by a man who claimed that he was curing her lesbianism. It is called “corrective rape” and is common in South Africa, with more than one a day being recorded in Cape Town alone. In 2008, women’s football star Eudy Simelane was raped and murdered. ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
