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Softness, Strength and the Cage of Gender

Reading We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie stirred something in me. It did not feel like I was simply reading words on a page. It felt like I was being asked to look inward, to sit with uncomfortable truths and to ask myself the kind of existential questions that do not leave you unchanged: Who am I? What do I want to be? Who am I growing into? How much of myself is truly mine and how much has been shaped by the world around me? What struck me most is how simple and clear Adichie makes feminism feel, even while speaking about something so layered, so misunderstood, and so widely distorted. Feminism is not about women ruling over men. It is about social, economic, and political equality. It is about dismantling the gender hierarchy that has been normalised for centuries. It is about refusing the idea that one gender must always dominate while the other must adjust, shrink or obey. Even though Adichie grew up in Nigeria and spoke from a deeply specific cultural contex...