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8 March 2026

The maternal tax

This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, what it me…

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Tax justice & care

7 March 2026

Forty years of nothing

This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, what it me…

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Tax justice & care

7 March 2026

The Ghost in the Market

This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, and what i…

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Tax justice & care

6 March 2026

The economic ghost: What does it mean to be an invisible taxpayer?

This is part of a series: "Tax Justice Through a Feminist Lens". The series builds on my previous articles, " Do You Pay Your Taxes? " and " Taxation and the Redistribution of P…

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Tax justice & care

5 March 2026

The tax system's blind eye to women

This is part of a series: "Tax Justice Through a Feminist Lens". The series builds on my previous articles, " Do You Pay Your Taxes? " and "Taxation and the Redistribution of Po…

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Tax justice & care

3 March 2026

Taxation and the redistribution of power

This is part of a series: "Tax Justice Through a Feminist Lens" . The series builds on my previous article, "Do You Pay Your Taxes?" The voices in that article asked honest ques…

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Tax justice & care

21 February 2026

Do you pay your taxes?

Do you pay your taxes? It is a simple question. It deserves an honest answer. Many of us hesitate. We calculate. We think about what we can deduct, what we can hide, what we can…

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AI & ethics

13 February 2026

Mama, how did you build a world without a phone?

My children ask me now. They hold sleek devices in their palms. They swipe, tap, and connect instantly to anyone anywhere. They ask with genuine curiosity, a little bewilderment…

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Life & culture

31 January 2026

Your silence, or the friction of voice?

I am a quiet person. My natural reserve is often misread as pride. Yet, I am relentlessly vocal. I say and write the things marked taboo. This contradiction has earned me a labe…

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Life & culture

10 January 2026

The Heirloom of Hurt: Trauma, Not Curse

What is commonly called a ‘generational curse’ is not a spiritual sentence. It is not a mystic hex placed upon a bloodline. It is unhealed trauma. It is a psychic injury, untrea…

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AI & ethics

8 January 2026

The nobody at home

A visitor comes to the door. The call goes out. Is there anyone here? Is anyone at home? From within, a woman’s voice answers. No. Nobody. But she is there. Her daughters are th…

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Life & culture

1 January 2026

Your cumulative wealth in 2026

I do not dwell on what failed. I do not tally losses in a ledger of regret. The exercise is not productive. The question is never what went wrong. The question is what did it re…

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