I find social media exhausting. For a long time I used it as a time filler or a source of entertainment. I’d go to bed tired and yet having accomplished absolutely nothing towards my dreams and goals. Being a keyboard…
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Thembi Terry Whande
Sometimes I open my WhatsApp and find 120+ unopened messages and I feel overwhelmed and close the app. But because some of you have an inflated sense of self, you start thinking that I am ignoring you. Well I am,…
We shouldn’t have to set precautionary measures for our daughters. Teach your male relatives to STOP RAPING WOMEN. Now that all protocol has been observed let’s get into it. “You should’ve never went to his house at night.. what did…
The only thing humans are born instinctively knowing how to do is probably breathing. So if you thought we are all born with a module of how you wanna be treated, I hate to break it you but we don’t….
Here’s what my parents being too busy to show up to any of my school events taught me, you don’t die! Walking up to the podium or being on the stage and there’s absolutely no one to say, “mwana wangu…
I’ve been listening to that Msizkay, Awakhiwe and Mzoe7 Ngawuzw’ umoya wami song and I got to thinking about all the people who have expressed their romantic interest in me. I haven’t a clue what it feels like to like…
Love is a lot of things, the one thing it isn’t about is deprivation. If you’ve ever spoken to a good or decent parent, they will tell you how it tears their heart apart when they have to deny their…
First of all, do you know how hard it is to be a Beyoncé? Next of all, to become a Beyoncé you need to aspire to an impossible standard of perfection and hard work and those two things are what…
Most of my friendships deteriorated not because we fell out of love but because it felt like I was walking on thin ice and they were pussyfooting on eggshells around me. The situation got so awkward to the point where…
If you know me, you know that I never go anywhere without my phone and my headphones. I have a playlist for every chore and every mood. It wasn’t until I had to go to the States that I fell…
