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Slay in Your Lane: the self-help must-read for black women
Slay in Your Lane: the self-help must-read for black women

Slay In Your Lane is a book, which for me, a black woman, felt long overdue. Before I read it about a week ago, I had never come across a self-help book that fully addressed the intrinsic difficulties that come with being a black woman.

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Funmi Lijadu30 July 2018
"Sorry" Erases Female Voices: Let's Unlearn Excessive Apologising
"Sorry" Erases Female Voices: Let's Unlearn Excessive Apologising

“Sorry” is a magic word, churned out automatically by most, but often for all the wrong reasons.

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feminismFunmi Lijadu18 July 2018
Yrsa Daley Ward's 'The Terrible' is as far from terrible as it gets
Yrsa Daley Ward's 'The Terrible' is as far from terrible as it gets

It was 12:33 am on June 7th when I finished reading The Terrible within three hours of picking it up…

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Funmi Lijadu3 July 2018
Everything I love about Chloe Sheppard's 'All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun'
Everything I love about Chloe Sheppard's 'All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun'

Her aesthetic vision explores identity, femininity and desire, all with an unspoken emphasis on the unabashed female gaze she offers…

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art, photography, zine, feminism, female gazeFunmi Lijadu3 July 2018review
A review of Chinua Achebe's The Education of a British Protected Child
A review of Chinua Achebe's The Education of a British Protected Child

The book is a collection of sixteen essays by the iconic (now-late) Chinua Achebe, which he insists are not scholarly…

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bookFunmi Lijadu17 June 2018review
The Perfect Body Does Not Exist - An article I wrote for LAPPTheBrand
The Perfect Body Does Not Exist - An article I wrote for LAPPTheBrand

If we leave them behind, we may defeat an aspect of misogynistic culture that has limited women for so long: normalized body shaming.

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Funmi Lijadu11 June 2018
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