Hi, my name is Jessie, and I’m a writer, activist, and unashamed history and language nerd. That’s why I say that words are my superpower! Explore the world where activism meets inspiration with my posts, and together, we can be part of the conversation for change.
Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, Afghanistan has undergone one of the most extreme rollbacks of women’s rights in modern history. Girls are barred from secondary school, women are excluded from universities and most employment, and public space has been redefined as male territory.
But what exists today is not merely discrimination. Increasingly, legal scholars and UN experts are calling it something more precise: gender apartheid — a system of institutionalised domination that may meet the structural threshold of a crime against humanity.
This article examines how Afghanistan’s new legal framework, including the revised criminal code, has reshaped both public and private life for women — and what this means for future generations.
Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed isn’t just a book about classrooms—it’s a framework for power. This review explores Freire’s “banking model,” problem-posing education, internalised oppression, feminist critiques, and why his ideas still matter across today’s struggles against hierarchy and injustice.
Matriarchy is usually imagined as the female version of patriarchy – women ruling over men. But anthropology tells a very different story. Drawing on matrilineal and matrifocal societies from around the world, this article shows how matriarchy is centred on social regeneration, kinship and moral authority, rather than domination. Understanding this difference radically changes how we think about feminism, power and governance.
Hair is never just hair. From Kurdish braids cut as trophies, to girls punished for afros, to women in Iran cutting their hair in revolt, this essay explores women’s hair as the most intimate site of feminist resistance—where power meets the body, and the body answers back.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is not a conspiracy theory — it’s a framework. This article explores how debt, development, and intervention function as tools of modern empire, and why the patterns John Perkins described are still shaping global politics today.
What happens when motherhood feels like a living death? Drawing on Orna Donath’s Regretting Motherhood, this essay confronts the taboo truth of maternal regret, the erasure of women, and why every woman deserves to know the cost before becoming a mother.
For more than three decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experienced one of the deadliest sustained conflicts since World War II, resulting in millions of deaths and the displacement of entire communities. Often described as “too complex” to understand, the crisis is more accurately defined by familiar forces: colonial extraction, foreign intervention, ethnic fragmentation, and the global demand for natural resources.
A newborn taken within the first hour. A mother told she failed a culturally biased test. Decades after the Little Danes experiment, Greenlandic children are still being removed by the Danish state. This article exposes how Europe’s newest Stolen Generation is being created — and why the world must pay attention.
When The Way of the Superior Man was first published in 1997, it offered men a spiritual roadmap to purpose, love, and sexual integrity. But over time, it has divided readers — hailed by some as timeless wisdom, dismissed by others as poetic patriarchy. This essay explores both the brilliance and the blind spots of David Deida’s work, tracing its origins in the 1990s men’s movement, its tantric underpinnings, and its enduring influence on modern masculinity.
Born from grief in the harbor of Havana, ¡Patria o Muerte, Venceremos! — Homeland or Death, We Shall Overcome — became the heartbeat of the Cuban Revolution. It began as a cry, evolved into a creed, and endures today as both memory and mirror. This essay traces the phrase’s extraordinary life: from Fidel Castro’s funeral speech after La Coubre to Che Guevara’s thunder at the United Nations, through decades of propaganda, adaptation, and digital rebirth. More than a slogan, it is proof that words can outlive their revolutions — that language itself can become the last survivor of history.