Are Somali Women Being Set Up for Failure?
It’s 2018. Why aren’t we talking about the real issues we experience as Somali women: student loans, the wage gap, rising cost of living and lack of affordable childcare? Advertisements
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Let’s Be Honest: Standards for Black Women are Higher When Dating
Dating in 2018 is already a mess, but dating as a Black woman means you have to be damn near perfect to be worthy of affection and care. Misogynoir (misogyny directed at Black women specifically) is real.
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To Be a Somali Woman is to Suffer
I broke down after watching Jamal Osman’s documentary about sex tourism in Nairobi, Kenya. It hit too close to home. We’ve always known. Watching the documentary triggered my deeply embedded trauma.
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Gabar Goes Global: 5 Things I Learned about Solo Travel in Colombia
Colombia is an incredibly rich country and has the third largest Black population after Brazil and the U.S. I received a lot of attention there because Black female solo travelers aren’t very common.
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