Before You Praise the Catholic Church, Ask the Children It Hurt My attention has been drawn to an article circulating widely—one which heaps glowing praise on the Catholic Church, portraying it as the fountain of enlightenment, the custodian of knowledge, and the harbinger of civilization. It goes further to romanticize the papacy as a coterie of intellectual titans, boasting…
I was seven…seven…just seven A seed…not yet called sapling. She,a cousintwice ripenedbreasts like twin orangesstraining thin cloth,hips like two drumsbeating beneath her wrapper. She said:“Let me show youhow fire sleepsin a woman’s belly.” I was a lambtethered to her whisper.I was a drumshe beatbehind shut doors.She said the bloodtrapped,mapping my buttocks,pulsed her budawake,called the wet godfrombetween her thighs. I…
Alice Lahoda Warning: This post discusses domestic violence and sexual abuse. It’s been said that you should never discuss politics or religion in polite company. But that doesn’t apply to the internet, where everyone is impolite. Recently, Reddit user lowly_shepherd asked, “People who have stopped going to church, what made you stop?” People had A LOT to say. The question received…
— You say I have wronged you. You say I have taken what was not mine, that my hands have strayed where they should not, that my power has become my pleasure, that my will turned your silence into chains. — Ah, but let the elders decide! Let them open their wise old eyes, let them look into my…
For Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan You call me predator— but tell me, little goat, did you not wander too close? Did you not dare to speak when silence was safer? The night has rules. The tall trees whisper them. The rivers murmur them. Even the wind—soft and knowing— hums the old wisdom: “When the hyena grins, the goat must bow.”…
What happens when you challenge the establishment?…
The Great Delusion invites you into a…
—for Professor Alofoje Unuigboje— by Majekodunmi Oseriemen…
By Majekodunmi Oseriemen Ebhohon They say the…
