Heretic Unbound
I’m Sharon Kemunto, a Kenyan feminist and atheist thinker dissecting the intersections of power, religion, and womanhood. I write to challenge what we’ve been told to accept and to remind women that questioning is freedom.
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Sigmund Freud (opens the original)
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You've probably come across Sigmund Freud, right? The guy with the beard and the cigar? <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="630" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!E7dw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
My Mother, (opens the original)
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I really love my mother. I really do love that woman, I would die for her,but I'd never want to be her. You see,my mother is a teacher,a primary school teacher. My mother,married my father... father isn't really the name I'd call him but that's what people see..a dad..a respected member of the clergy even. But to us.. he's not all that…in fact.. he's worse than he's the best to the outside world. Oh wait, I was supposed to talk about my mother,not his husband. My mum;may the universe grant her h
Living With a Misogynist (opens the original)
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You probably think the title is just click bait right? Wrong, it's not . I swear. Now that I'm back in school, I have some tea from my practicum. So,on February, we were to choose schools where we were to do our practicum. I had a couple of schools to choose from since I was planning to stay with my sister, meaning the schools had to be around her house. Unfortunately, all the schools were full because they had already taken other practicum teachers from other colleges and universities. I had th
Sex Work, Pornography, and the Lie of Choice (opens the original)
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Hi,sorry for the long post but I think we need to have this conversation once and for all. My takes on some issues might be controversial but we're here to learn right? Hayaa.There is a woman in Maharashtra, India. Her name is Kamalabai Pani, and she was a leader of a sex workers' collective called VAMP. She spent her life fighting for the rights of women who had been forced into the sex trade. She organized them. She advocated for them. She spoke for them when no one else would. And one day, sh
The Politics of African Hair (opens the original)
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The Civilized AfricanFor an African to become "civilized" under colonial rule, they had to first become unrecognizable. The missionaries were clear about this. They did not come to Africa to meet the people where they were. They came to erase and rebuild them in their image. The first visible marker of that transformation was always the hair.What does it mean to be told that the hair growing from your head is unacceptable? Not different. Not unfamiliar. Unacceptable. That word carries moral weig
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