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A Potent Covid-19 Vaccine: Socialism
How KK Shailaja and her ‘Covid brigade’ won a victory against the virus www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/dec/22/how-kk-shailaja-and-her-covid-brigade-won-a-victory-against-the-virus Fewer coronavirus patients have…
LGBTQ+ Persons in The Era Of Covid-19
Under ‘ordinary’ circumstances, the year 2020 would have been a very progressive year for the Gay and Lesbian…
Covid-19 and Patriarchy In The International Year Of The Nurse and Midwife
In an effort to shed light on the vital but undervalued labour of predominantly female health professionals, the…
Closing The Gender Wealth Gap: One Woman Investor At A Time
You don’t need to have met Asha to picture her sitting at her kitchen counter in Dubai first…
Women’s Human Rights Violations During The Covid-19 Pandemic
On13 March 2020, the Government announced that it had recorded its first case of Covid-19 in Kenya. This…
Women in The Pandemic: Stories Of Survivors & Frontline Responders
In Kenya, as in many countries around the world, women have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 crisis.…
Women and The Pandemic In The Sacrifice Zones
Over the last year I have been conducting interviews with activists around the world about their experiences of…
Beauty Saved Us, My Book Club During The Corona Pandemic
In his speech on receiving the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, ‘One day Dostoevsky…
Back To The Future – The Plague And Covid
THE PLAGUE PANDEMIC – Nairobi, Early 1900s Hardei was well into another pregnancy. Some women, not much older,…
It’s Boom and Bust For Women Journalists In The Covid-19 Pandemic Era
Everything that Mildred Kaguhia Makaya had planned was derailed once the first coronavirus case was identified in Kenya.…