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I saw a post where a woman narrated that she interviewed a sex offender who said he specifically targeted the children of single mothers in the complex that he was living. He mentioned that they were the easiest to target because the mothers constantly needed help and once they developed a little trust in him they would let him watch over their kids. He said he would wait about a year before the abuse begins. It is not only evil men that target the children of single mothers.

This was about 2009, when I was in Morning Star School. I remember at that time we had just moved to the Eastern Region, about a year after moving there. The cars my mom had managed to get to send me to school had all broken down, so getting to and from school had become a problem. My little sister had been taken out of Morning Star School because she was quite young, so finding a new school and class for her was easier. But I had already entered junior high school, so my mom

How do I even start? Where do I even start from? What do I even say? Because what I’m about to say may come off as heavy, but I have to say it bluntly. I’m beginning to get tired of International Women’s Day. And the reason why I’m beginning to get tired of International Women’s Day is because I increasingly see it as a farce. F-A-R-C-E. A farce. Look, this whole concept of women feeling “included” in corporate institutions, and not just corporate institutions but institution

A few years ago, I joined what I thought was supposed to be one of my dream organizations. I have written about that place before in one of my posts and I described the experience as equal to a nightmare. And there is one particular incident that, now that I think about it, I laugh. Not because I would have done anything differently then, but because I most likely would have done worse now. There was this workshop and implementation training we were assisting an institution w