Mary Kamau“You can’t turn out a light, shining on the inside.” Steffany Gretzinger (Blackout) In this video, Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenburg talks about how she hates the phrase “women are their own worst enemies” and she puts to task anyone who uses it. Why? Narrative creates expectation. What we say, do, experience and believe today determines what […]
There are a million trains of thought on beauty out there. Some of them have run peacefully together in parallel to each other; some gracefully wait for each other to pass by before taking their turn; some have been near misses of accidents; some have been the epitome of train wrecks. I’ve been thinking about […]
It’s the brown stilettos that get my attention first. Seated in a Kencom bus, stuck in traffic on Kenyatta Avenue, I don’t have much else to do but stare out the window and daydream. My vivid imagination is usually powerful enough to drown out the world around me. But those brown stilettos shatter right through […]
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