Thread by @EyalaBlog

What do we do on Sundays? (I mean, before the cleaning, cooking, stopping kids' squabbles, and trying to crack the code of how to fit both work & homeschooling in the coming week). We read! So here's #EyalaReads, your recommended reads about #Africa #WomensRights & #Feminism.

"Grief is a cruel kind of education." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote how grieving for her father, but also about who he was. It's a beautiful and moving piece. Uncomfortably intimate at times, especially because she has been so private so far.
bit.ly/2RHkajN @NewYorker

"Volatile times call for complex and imaginative cultural stories." Read @MsAfropolitan's thoughts about African #feminism and afropolitanism today. (Blogging tip: see how she links back to her own blog when she guest-posts? We learn oh!)

bit.ly/2Hc6Xx7 @brittlepaper

This one comes with a big trigger warning for rape and sexual assault. @alithnayn wrote candidly and bravely about the close family friend who sexually assaulted her. A painful reminder that rapists are not aliens or strange beasts.

bit.ly/3cguXe0 @YNaija #EyalaReads

"Don't even get me started" is what I say whenever I'm asked about so-called "pro-family advocates" operating in Africa. Now I'll share the link to this piece where @namlyd & @AryaKarijo expose these group's hypocrisy in #Kenya
@openDemocracy bit.ly/2REMWS2 #EyalaReads

Let's read & share this piece by @nanakwabena, inviting Black men to join the resistance against misogynoir: "A resistance where men STFU when women have the floor and LOUD the fuck up when we see some fuck shit within our own backyards." Yep.

bit.ly/33EKctq #EyalaReads

How should journalists position themselves within a story they report on? @dildaydoc writes: "I believe our role is facilitator instead of interpreter, catalyst instead of judge." Such an insightful piece. Highly recommended.

bit.ly/32MUubz @NiemanReports #EyalaReads

Still on #journalism: this @galdemzine analysis of a @WIJ_UK report on the Black women's place in British media is infuriating. At least the UK has numbers, I guess. In #France gathering data on the basis of race is illegal. State-sponsored denial much?
bit.ly/2FBkiPp

Most of the coverage about the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg focuses on the political implications for #WomensRights & democracy in the US. Appreciate that @NPR took the time to acknowledge #RBG's #feminist badassery. She was amazing. #RIPRBG
n.pr/33IKCiu #EyalaReads

Okay, I'm told I've been reading for too long now. Time to go. Happy reading, happy Sunday. Let's try to embrace whatever 2020 is going to throw at us next week, rather than bracing ourselves for it.