by Community Contributor | Aug 31, 2020 | Community Contributions, Mental Health, Health & Wellness
I was a teen mom and now I’m a young mom, who’s ambitions are far beyond someone who has a whole family to look after. After having my daughter at 19, with no clear knowing of myself, I dropped out of 2nd year… All because I was 5 months pregnant and...
by Community Contributor | Aug 26, 2020 | Community Contributions, For The Culture
Written by Zilanie Tamara Gondwe Taboo. Uttering the word vagina is taboo in my country. Taboo things and practices are usually proscribed to women. The Oxford Dictionary defines taboo as: 1. A social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular...
by Community Contributor | Aug 24, 2020 | Community Contributions, Mental Health, Health & Wellness
Written by Mandy Taite-Tait For as long as I could remember I was always doing something. Always dreaming, building, and wanting something bigger. As a little kid, this involved taking care of grasshoppers. I was maybe 10 and I would keep them in a pencil case with...
by Community Contributor | Aug 21, 2020 | Community Contributions, Navigating Adulting
Growing up I had a small body and so I suffered from an inferiority complex, I saw myself as insignificant and I doubted my capabilities and failed to realize that dynamites come in small packages, I always thought that others people were better than me and always...
by Community Contributor | Aug 19, 2020 | Community Contributions, Mental Health, Health & Wellness
Written by Tafadzwa Madzika Sometimes I hate my life. Maybe more than just sometimes. It’s not the thoughts of suicide that are ever present but just dying seems good. It seems simpler, an escape of sorts. Life can be painful. It mostly is. No matter where you...
