Reading Time: 4 minutes “This city is not yours, it is not mine, it is theirs!” Says the rat-girl as she unleashes millions of rats and in her mind, her father’s memory. “Daddy, why rats?” Young rat girl whose father taught her how to control rats asks. “They are the lowest form of life… If rats have a purpose, so do we all.” Damn, I nearly shed tears.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Let’s Ask the Difficult Questions
Is it really possible to end GBV by 2026 and FGM by 2022? Of course not! In a country where the name feminism and gender equality sound like insults to women and men, how do we do that?
Second, where is these 23 million investments in gender equality and 1 million dollars in for research and innovation that Kenyatta promised?
How does Gemini Spice Magazine get it to advance women rights with the five-year plan we have designed? How does Sikimyii get it to create our GBV app and fund our research?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Following the generation equality forum that just happened in Paris from 30th June to 2nd July, its prudent we express our feminism the most, ask questions that need to answered, forge ways that make gender equality a reality for all of us!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Notable present figures and speakers in the forum included our president, Kenyatta who presented commitments to advance gender equality, remove all forms of gender-based violence, and end FGM by 2026. Yea, right!
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am glad to be a feminist! I am proud that this Gemini Spice is a feminist magazine (btw we will be rebranding soon so our feminist energy can be felt through-out the website and our activities) and that we have and are on the way to giving a voice to the voiceless, rallying women to know our power, advancing women’s rights, reveal feminist literature and leave a legacy that future feminists will be proud to be associated with!
Reading Time: 6 minutes Given that the survey was anonymous, people gave their opinions honestly and without repression, lets see how that goes next time when we ask for emails and names, Muhaha!!
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this fucking stupidity that we find ourselves trapped in, we forget that everyone is just a human, who shits, who gets hungry and eats, who thirsts for water, who wants to belong to a community, who gets frustrated in traffic, who sins, who is trapped in a reality that is hard to accept, and who would like to consider themselves a good human being.
Reading Time: 2 minutes We need to realize that we need representation in the media, we need something to reflect to and realize we are not alone, that there are people just like “me”out here. Remember, they don’t teach this kind of love out here so we have to be patient with ourselves. Here are some films in a …
Representation of Queer People in Kenyan (and Afrikan) Movies Matters! Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Vivek says,”often wonder if I died in the best possible way—in the arms of the one who loved me the most (Osita) , wearing a skin that was true. I watch him grieve and I want to tell him he’s already been forgiven for everything and anything he could ever do to me.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes If there is anything that is not African, then it is the religions we so dearly hold onto. True African cultures celebrated diversity and promoted acceptance.
It is time for the new generation to wake up and uproot the tree of hate and discrimination planted by biased and uninformed traditions and religions. It is time to plant a new seed of knowledge, love, tolerance and understanding.