Posts Tagged ‘gender’
Don’t say he didn’t warn you
I’ve been holding this little tidbit for the right moment… The day Clinton wins in West Virginia seems apropos. When I was in Burundi, I met this Congolese guy who wanted to talk about the American election. He was the third Congolese guy I’d had a conversation about the campaigns with, and the first two [...]
Good news for people like me, if we lived in the Ivory Coast…
A friend forwarded me this story from the BBC, Ivory Coast’s ‘big-bottom’ craze. There’s a song in praise of bums, which spawned a dance which shows them off, which, naturally, spawned an industry of medicines to give you a bum big enough to be worthy of the dance. Locals hawk Chinese-made medicines full of vitamin [...]
Where have all the (cow)girls gone?
Okay, I don’t even like that song, so to all of you, and myself, I apologize. But yesterday it occurred to me, I’m surrounded by men. Occasionally I meet women in Rwanda; there are a few who work in the office our living room hosts by day, and they are amazing and wonderful. If I [...]
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