The Black Girl Chronicles

 Sex is passion and should not be shamed due to religious ideologies We all reach an age when we are ready to experience the pleasures of sexual intercourse, but most of us grew up in religious homes that encouraged or enforced virginity (if female) and celibacy (if male). These constraints due to patriarchal norms are less strict on males and give them the free pass to "act as they wish" without shame, unlike with females who would be shamed or even shunned by their families or communities. I cannot even mention the traumatic sexual experiences females go through that either makes them hypersexual or afraid of engaging in intimacy or intercourse. I am not disregarding that males experience sexual trauma but statistically females are more prone to experience the sexual assault and harassment, leading to trauma response behaviours and habits. Commonly many perpetrators are people the victims are familiar with like close family or supposed friends which may create the cycle to ...

I am deeply saddened as a woman by media enticing us to act a certain way in order to coherse rich men into our lives. Nobody wants to live in poverty but we cannot look down on our fellow good men because they cannot provide those "riches". I acknowledge my financial privilege and I admit that I don't know the depths of extreme poverty but my morality cannot allow me to witness such injustices on both the men and women. I also have to admit that we are at a disadvantage as black people since the poverty gap is so high and reaching the upper part of the spectrum is a mountain climb but both parties have to work to eradicate this poverty gap together. The soft life we are all striving for should not be at the cost of selling our dignity in all ways not only sexually. As much as we are 'modern' women, we cannot adopt backward practices to satiate our hunger, not after so much fight. I do not have a solution on how we can attain financial freedom as yet b...