The Consent Workshop Tiwa Savage's Sex Tape Blackmail Should Change Our View On Sex

Tiwa Savage’s Sex Tape Blackmail Should Change Our View On Sex

Bernard Dayo

Although Tiwa Savage has a new project out, the Water & Garri EP which features one of America’s enduring RnB forebearers Brandy, public attention shifted to a rather private matter concerning the singer recently. Going live on New York-based radio station Power 105.1 FM to disclose her plight of being blackmailed with her sex tape, Savage’s privacy was turned inside out again. It seemed like a preemptive action, to lessen the windfall around such news catching everyone unawares. Not new to controversies and tribulations since her career became a bonafide force in the industry and beyond, we as bystanders have come to associate all these with the choppy terrain of celebrity.  What she has grappled… Read More

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The Consent Workshop Slut-Shaming: Fast Black girls

Slut-Shaming: Fast Black girls

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The term ‘fast’ denotes a girl who has matured sexually beyond her years. While we’re not too sure how one could mature sexually beyond one’s age, we are certain that it is a term used to justify the slut-shaming and sexual assault of black girls in society. While discussing slut shaming it is important to recognize the intersections within this discussion and the difference in experience within racialized groups. It seems a bit redundant that slut-shaming still has to be explained to the larger public, that no one woman is better than the other for the choices she makes in terms of sexual activities or appearance. For reference, however Slut-shaming,… Read More

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The Consent Workshop How Purity Culture Enables Rape Culture

How Purity Culture Enables Rape Culture

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Purity culture: any teaching that places the honour of a girl/woman on her vagina and reinforces the idea that premarital sex make women worthless. Purity /noun/: the state or quality of being pure. Pure /adjective/: clean and not containing any harmful substances; complete and total. Purity culture is blaming Eve for giving the apple to Adam and enticing him to sin. Every Christian girl knows Eve is the architect of our misfortune. Every bad thing women experience today is a result of Eve’s sin. Purity culture is comparing girls who are sexually active to expired food products. Because you know, girls automatically become expired milk after they have sex. It… Read More

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The Consent Workshop “How to Prevent rape?”

“How to Prevent rape?”

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People spend so much time telling women how to avoid rape in a bar or an alley but what are the prevention measures women should take when the rapist isn’t the stranger in the bar who offered to buy a drink, or the stranger on the train/bus who stared at you all through the ride? What do we do when the rapist is a brother, father, uncle or husband? I’ve heard so many rape prevention measures usually targeted at women and girls, things to do and things not to do to prevent it yet people rape women and girls everyday, one would think that with so many prevention measures out… Read More

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The Consent Workshop Sleep Was My Escape (TW)

Sleep Was My Escape (TW)

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TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ABUSE I was not the perfect victim. I get slut-shamed to this very day, because I was not your good girl with the long skirts. I am constantly told I must have asked for it, that I didn’t fight back enough. I froze. Olohije Oyakhire  They didn’t understand my reaction to this violence. Sexual Violence, a term I have come to prefer saying in place of the four letter word that means I have been tainted. My soul was darkened by that morning and I don’t think I can ever be free. He is coming back. I still see him in my dreams, his tall frame and… Read More

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