Every week, we round up the best tweets revolving around the themes we explore on the blog. Here are some of the tweets we loved from the past week that inspired us, made us laugh, or made us go a-ha.
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I’m surprised some of you don’t know that feminism is for men, too. The patriarchy isn’t good for any of us!
— fox🥀🏴 (@imafoxnow) August 14, 2020
2.
NO MATTER HOW YOU CONDEMNED MATERIALISM, BEING BROKE IS NOT SPIRITUALITY.
— Port Harcourt JAGABAN 📸 (@PHCinpictures) August 13, 2020
3.
If you can’t handle the fact that your child can be gay, don’t have any. https://t.co/ZoFiCUj5YX
— THE ADA ELULUGO (@ElulugoElla) August 15, 2020
4.
Scamming is a crime in Nigeria, but here’s a film about scamming (419). I don’t hear the Nigerian Film Censors Board up in arms about it oh. When it comes to films about LGBT people, that’s when you’ll hear “we have laws about certain things” 🙄 Thunder fire all of them. Nonsense https://t.co/kfEpcUguA4
— Pamela Adie (@biwomdz) August 14, 2020
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Murdering someone for blasphemy isn’t punishment for insulting a mighty God. It’s revenge for making insecure men feel weak. Small men kill those who remind them their God isn’t great enough to compel everyone’s faith, nor powerful enough to smite his own enemies.
— Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) August 11, 2020
6.
telling a black person that they sound white because they can articulate themselves is very offensive idc
— ‘ella🤍 (@8ellax) August 14, 2020
7.
One thing you shouldn’t do is allowing someone get comfortable disrespecting you ‘cos they won’t stop.
— tobiloba👑 (@tobiloba_6) August 14, 2020
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One thing you shouldn’t do is allowing someone get comfortable disrespecting you ‘cos they won’t stop.
— tobiloba👑 (@tobiloba_6) August 14, 2020
9.
“Sometimes rapists are the people closest to us. We should never protect them from the Law irrespective of our personal relationships with them.” – Prince on #BBNaija. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 #NoMeansNo
— Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi (@AyodejiOsowobi) August 13, 2020
10.
“You’ve changed” well yeah feminism opened my eyes & now I just wanna see the the patriarchy burn.
— An Angry Feminist is TIRED (@zarascomics) August 14, 2020