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Jessica Horn

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…

5 min readOct 12, 2022

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Reading to transgress: Cultivating critical thinking in our daughters

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Jessica Horn

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…

3 min readJun 14, 2021

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The haunting.

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Jessica Horn

@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…

2 min readMar 19, 2021

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@stillsherises x @Disobedient Bodies: A reading list

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Jessica Horn

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…

3 min readDec 31, 2020

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Ode to a year that hurt

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Jessica Horn

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…

4 min readDec 24, 2019

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

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Jessica Horn

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…

4 min readDec 1, 2018

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World AIDS Day: Three decades of loving militance

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Jessica Horn

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…

7 min readOct 14, 2018

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Digging in the African feminist bibliographic archives

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Jessica Horn

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…

2 min readOct 12, 2018

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Lullabies for freedom’s girls

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Jessica Horn

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…

3 min readMay 1, 2018

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A Worker’s Day wish for African women

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Jessica Horn

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…

3 min readFeb 14, 2018

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On Feminist Friendship

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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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