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Reading to transgress: Cultivating critical thinking in our daughters

For most of my life we lived at house number 9. According to numerology this implies a house filled with compassion, a sense of service…

Oct 12, 2022

Reading to transgress: Cultivating critical thinking in our daughters

Oct 12, 2022

The haunting.

There’s a photo in my phone that always features as the latest picture in my album, even though I downloaded it in June 2017. A silvery…

Jun 14, 2021

The haunting.

Jun 14, 2021

@stillsherises x @Disobedient Bodies: A reading list

This reading list accompanies the Istagram takeover I did on Emma Dabiri’s DisobedientBodies where I epxlore African feminist resistance to…

Mar 19, 2021

@stillsherises x @Disobedient Bodies: A reading list

Mar 19, 2021

Ode to a year that hurt

If I’m honest, 2020 hurt. There were days when death hung like smog over whole cities. Days, months of death. Ty died. Kobby’s brother Ebow…

Dec 31, 2020

Ode to a year that hurt

Dec 31, 2020

Why I am not writing a personal press release for the end of the decade

Its approaching New Years. Not just any new year, but 2020, the start of a new decade in the colonially imposed Gregorian calendar, and of…

Dec 24, 2019

Why I am not writing a personal press release for the end of the decade

Dec 24, 2019

World AIDS Day: Three decades of loving militance

It is 30 years since World AIDS Day was first commemorated, propelled by a global surge of frontline activism. Today it feels urgent to…

Dec 1, 2018

World AIDS Day: Three decades of loving militance

Dec 1, 2018

Digging in the African feminist bibliographic archives

African feminists have been producing knowledge for centuries. Finding it however has not always been easy. Until the internet age…

Oct 14, 2018

Digging in the African feminist bibliographic archives

Oct 14, 2018

Lullabies for freedom’s girls

This International Day of the Girl Child is an emotional one for me as I hold my own tiny daughter, the resilient and yet thoroughly…

Oct 12, 2018

Lullabies for freedom’s girls

Oct 12, 2018

A Worker’s Day wish for African women

A human rights activist friend once commented that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is far more interesting if read backwards. And…

May 1, 2018

A Worker’s Day wish for African women

May 1, 2018

On Feminist Friendship

Feeling adrift a few weeks ago, I started reading Anam Cara- Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World, a classic by Irish poet and…

Feb 14, 2018

On Feminist Friendship

Feb 14, 2018

Jessica Horn

Jessica Horn

(East) African feminist writer, doer, interpreter of the ordinary. Women’s rights strategist and advisor on bodies, movements, feminist futures @stillsherises

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