Jessica HornReading to transgress: Cultivating critical thinking in our daughtersFor 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, 2022Oct 12, 2022
Jessica HornThe 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, 2021Jun 14, 2021
Jessica Horn@stillsherises x @Disobedient Bodies: A reading listThis reading list accompanies the Istagram takeover I did on Emma Dabiri’s DisobedientBodies where I epxlore African feminist resistance to…Mar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021
Jessica HornOde to a year that hurtIf 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, 20201Dec 31, 20201
Jessica HornWhy I am not writing a personal press release for the end of the decadeIts 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, 2019Dec 24, 2019
Jessica HornWorld AIDS Day: Three decades of loving militanceIt 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, 2018Dec 1, 2018
Jessica HornDigging in the African feminist bibliographic archivesAfrican feminists have been producing knowledge for centuries. Finding it however has not always been easy. Until the internet age…Oct 14, 2018Oct 14, 2018
Jessica HornLullabies for freedom’s girlsThis 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, 2018Oct 12, 2018
Jessica HornA Worker’s Day wish for African womenA human rights activist friend once commented that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is far more interesting if read backwards. And…May 1, 2018May 1, 2018
Jessica HornOn Feminist FriendshipFeeling adrift a few weeks ago, I started reading Anam Cara- Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World, a classic by Irish poet and…Feb 14, 2018Feb 14, 2018