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How Toxic Productivity Gave Me PCOS And Why I Will Never Perform For My Family’s Love Again
A First-Born Daughter’s Story Of Chronic Stress, Financial Manipulation, And Choosing Herself For The First Time I have hid this story in my body for so long, but I can’t any further or I will explode and die. Growing up… Continue reading
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What Will People Say?
My Parents’ Default Question That Turned Me To a Rebel, a Runaway, and Eventually, My Own Autonomous Woman This is not a tell-it-all, but a necessary unpacking of the wounds I carried, and still carry. Trigger Warning: This essay contains… Continue reading
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When A Nigerian Catholic Girl Stops Performing
Is Religious Devotion the Only Way to Connect With God? Or Is It Just a Socially Acceptable Way To Be Seen as Holy? Growing up Catholic in Nigeria, I witnessed the beauty and the burdens of religious devotion. But as… Continue reading
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