Face to Face with Fear
By Nthabiseng I’d like to think that it’s because I have not been on this earth long…
A little longer: A plea for full existence
By Kenyan Annonymous Dear Family, This is one of those letters. Where you don’t know where to start…
One Night Stands
By Alexis Teyie/ @alexteyie Somehow I had convinced myself that one night stands must be life-affirming. That they were…
A fat girl’s off journey towards intimacy and self acceptance.
By Lyn “Babe, I hope you’re going to stay over tonight”. Under normal circumstances, a girl should be…
Queerly Spiritual, Queerly Cultural
Healing, A Letter To Myself
Healing: the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again. Mary Oliver declared that you should not give…
Sex Toys and Self Love
By Cosmic Yoruba When I was 17 years old, I reached an epiphany and decided that I would…
Making it through another day: HOLAA’s guide to self care and self love
As women have been taught to put their needs aside and take care of everyone else around us.…
The Sex Problem
By Tatenda There was something about waking up that never quite agreed with her but she did it…
HOLAA Loves: Healing To Fight The Good Fight
Fighting the good fight can be tiring, it can be grueling and it can sometimes be downright awful.…
No doubt, Africans are about that sex toy life.
Sex toys. Asking about them in polite society usually causes raised eyebrows and mumbles about their inappropriateness, but…