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Hey complicit men, if the shoe fits, wear it! – by Terry Howard

Warning readers!  This piece, written out of disgust, takes an unapologetic yet necessary swing at a deeply entrenched cultural double standard: victim-blaming of women accompanied by lack of accountability and general silence by way too many men. That said, understand that I’m going to be direct and will pull no punches about the hypocrisy of asking what a woman was wearing, drinking, or doing instead of holding perpetrators of her abuse accountable for their barbaric behaviors. 

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Roots, Shoots, Flowers, and Girls — by Susan Popoola

I’m aware that there are quite a number of groups and organisations that provide networking opportunities, support, training and work related opportunities for women. As a result when it became international news that over 200 hundred girls had been kidnapped in Northern Nigeria, I thought that there would be messages of concern and support added to our #BringBackOurGirls campaign from women’s groups across the world. When I mentioned this to a friend, she said that it probably didn’t happen because most groups focus primarily on women at the professional level.

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