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clawfootpress · 3 years

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Dear Mr. Met:

The other day I was riding my bike and I blew right through a stop sign. Didn’t even slow down. Didn’t even see it. I blame the Mets, partly. I was listening to a Mets game on my phone and they were winning but the Orioles had the bases loaded in the eighth and I was getting nervous. It was only my second day as a dog walker, so the part of my brain that wasn’t worried about the Mets was worried that I’d left a dog outside or a door unlocked or maybe the owners thought my notes were weird and they didn’t want me walking their dog again. With my brain full of such thoughts and feelings, I blew right through the stop sign.

I don’t mean I saw the stop sign, slowed down, looked both ways, and rolled on through without coming to a full stop. I do that all the time. No, I’m talking about blowing right through it, not even knowing it was there.

I don’t normally listen to my phone when I’m out biking, running, or walking. I don’t like things in my ears, for one, and I genuinely like hearing the sounds of the city. I thought I might be okay listening to the game since I wasn’t wearing ear buds. I had the phone mounted on my handlebars, the volume turned all the way up. It worked right up until the bases were loaded and I got nervous and blew right through the stop sign.

A guy in a truck honked at me and called me an asshole. It could have been worse, he could have also been distracted, maybe also by the Mets. Who knows? It’s a big city in a big world. Maybe it was his second to last day on the job. Maybe it had been too many days since his last day on the job. Maybe his daughter was in the hospital. Maybe his daughter wasn’t talking to him. Maybe his daughter finally called him that morning after twenty-eight years. Maybe his boyfriend broke up with him. The multiplicity of possibilities boggles the mind.

The point is, the guy could have also been distracted and blown right through the stop sign and then I really would have been in a jackpot. I still didn’t like being called an asshole, though, so I hit my brakes and turned around.

Oh, he said, yeah?

Yeah, I said, and rode right back at him.

You know how there’s this idea that if we put energy out into the world our desires can manifest? I believe that to be true. I’m not sure exactly how it works, I just know it works because I’ve seen it work. Rather, I’ve seen the inverse work. The energy I put out disintegrates the objects of my desire, which Buddhists say is good, I think, but I don’t know. I find it to be frustrating more than anything.

It makes sense when you think about it. If there is a law of attraction, then there has to be a law of repulsion. No light without dark. No day without night. No hot without cold. No pleasure without pain. No sweet without salty. No joy without sorrow. No life without death. No attraction without repulsion. Imagine someone out there setting an intention for something. As the thing is moving toward them, it has to be moving away from someone else. In order for them to attract, someone else must repel. That’s physics.

Even the great Jacob deGrom is not immune. In a game against the Rockies, he struck out nine batters in a row. Ten, as you know, is the record, held by the greatest Met of all, The Franchise, Tom Seaver. deGrom looked untouchable. He looked inevitable. I got excited. I texted my friends. The next batter got a hit.

Boy, was the guy in the truck mad. Understandably. I broke the law and put myself and others in danger, including him. He honked and yelled at me, which was freedom of expression at its finest. I stopped and turned back toward him and rode right back at him. I did that because he called me an asshole. I was wrong to blow through the stop sign, but I’m too proud to let someone call me an asshole.

God and Ben Franklin gave that man every right to shoot me dead in the street (Freedom of Worship), but he didn’t shoot me, even though I charged at him like a wild beast.

Instead of shooting me, he said, Oh, yeah?

Instead of apologizing, I said, Yeah. You don’t get to call me names.

I said this because I’m a man and deserve to be treated as such, even when I fuck up. I dared to look the man in the pickup truck in the eye and demand he treat me with basic dignity. To which he responded, You’re right. I was wrong about that.

Organized religion is dying but religiosity is alive and well. Prayers of Confession are all the rage.

Everybody wants confession, everybody wants some cathartic narrative for it. The guilty especially. I’m watching True Detective, Season One.

Look: Ellie Kemper should not have been in that Veiled Prophet debutant ball mostly because debutant balls are dumb, but raking her over the Twitter-coals until she apologized did nothing good. She was nineteen. At nineteen she was just as much a Victim of the Patriarchy as a Perpetrator of White Supremacy, but the crowd demanded atonement. Atonement for what? For being born into and participating in the life of a particular place with particular people at a particular time?

Maybe you never had to navigate growing up with racists. Maybe you never had to navigate the complexity of loving racists. Or being loved by racists. Maybe you never had to do the emotional labor of depending on racists to drive you to the hospital. Of knowing racists are more than their racism. Knowing they are capable of great acts of love, which make them beautifully human, but makes their racism more stark, more deliberate, more sinful, awful, frustrating, heartbreaking. Of having to choose as a child, then as an adolescent, between participating or feeling completely alone. In a time and a place where there were no counselors, or the counselors were also racist. Maybe you’ve never had to parse out different subcategories of racism as you try to discern which relationships are worth it, whatever that might mean, and which are completely irredeemable, and then finding the courage to act accordingly. If you haven’t, you’re lucky. Privileged, even.

Twitter got its confession, but neither you, nor I, nor Ellie Kemper, nor America is any less racist for it. I submit that Twitter only got its confession because Ellie Kemper was already prone to introspection, has been introspecting most of her life, and has done more introspecting than the average Twitter-activist. She didn’t change her mind, she was forced to dig up her past shit and lay it on the table to be picked over by people who only just took a seat. The new arrivals took a look at the shit and said, Boy that stinks. Then they felt better, and Ellie Kemper felt worse, and nothing else changed and that’s called progress.

My tension and adrenaline drained away. I saw his face, his particular face. He wasn’t a Man In a Pickup Truck, representative of everyman in a pickup truck; he was who he was. He had a round nose and bags under his eyes. Two or three days of stubble on his cheeks and chin. I wonder if he has grandchildren who complain about how scratchy it is? He looked scared, like a tired man who’d almost hit a careless cyclist. He didn’t to kill anyone and he was angry that I almost caused him to kill someone. I didn’t want this man to kill anyone, and I certainly didn’t want him to kill me.

It was then that I apologized for blowing right through the stop sign. Well, I was wrong about that.

He looked a little confused. It was a confusing situation. So, he said, we’re good then?

I felt a little confused. Weren’t we supposed to keep yelling?

We’re good then, I said.

His last words to me were either, I love that, or I love you. I’m 99% sure he said, I love that, but isn’t it pretty to think that he said, I love you?

Listen: it’s not that I’m anti-confession, but I’m wary and increasingly wary of proforma Prayers of Confession, especially when they are religiously proscribed by a demographic that claims to be Not Religious. (In the words of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Ask them a question and you are told the answer is to repeat a mantra.) Public confessions do, for better or worse, what religion does, for better or worse: tell us a story, give us a sense of control, shape our experience, and help us think we’re actually doing something – Look what we did, we extracted a confession! Private confessions don’t provide narrative, characters, or catharsis. All they offer is humanity, complexity, intimacy, vulnerability, and, occasionally, transformation.

I’m working on non-attachment, and, accordingly, on non-judgment, judgement being a form of attachment to the story we tell ourselves about how things should be.

It’s difficult. I remain attached to the story that thirteen-year-old boys should be allowed to grow up, no matter how much they fuck up when they are thirteen-years-old, therefore I judge the officer who killed Adam Toledo. I judge the adult who gave the boy a gun and showed him how to shoot. I judge the people who made the gun and all the hands that carried the gun to the boy. I judge people who love guns more than they love thirteen-year-old boys.

I ‘preciate you, I said, clipping the first syllable like I was someone I’m not. If this was fiction, I’d strike that dialogue as sounding untrue, not in character, but real life is messier, real people are inconsistent, and that’s really what I said.

I’m not great at talking to people. I was kind of hoping to get this one job with a delivery company because it was closer to home and paid more. The interviewer asked how I’d heard of their company. I said a friend had used them to move a large machine. I should have stopped there, but there is a word-gremlin inside me that likes to blow through stop signs. I said I’d moved that machine before and boy was I glad I didn’t have to move it again. I said that to the guy interviewing me about moving machines.

So I’m walking dogs.

What I want to do is write stories. I desire to never sit through another interview. I want my stories to be my interview and you, the reader, the one who says, You’re hired, you can start immediately, you’ll never have to move machines or walk dogs ever again.

I hesitate to say this too loud, lest the Inverse Laws of Attraction hear me. I also say this with an acute awareness that what writing does, for better or worse, is tell a story, give me a sense of control, shape my experience, and help me think I’m actually doing something. The obligation I have, then, is to tell good stories, to the best of my ability, populated with characters full of humanity, complexity, intimacy, vulnerability, who, at their best, offer the possibility of transformation. No cartoon villains.

Unless I’m writing a cartoon. And there are villains.

Is it possible for me (or anyone) to privately apologize for something I say or write, but publicly defend the right – and even the necessity – of saying it? It is. Is it possible for each to be equally true? It is.

Fully human/fully divine. Very well then, I contradict myself.

In the meantime, the world keeps shouting. It’s really difficult to talk when people are shouting all the time, especially when they are shouting the same thing over and over again, which is, BANG BANG BANG!

I don’t know what to do with that. It feels like I either have to shout or ignore it. Shouting makes me tired but ignoring it feels as reckless as blowing right through a stop sign. So I work on my stories and let them try to make sense of this absurd world.

Speaking of absurd, just when I thought I had this letter all buttoned up and ready to send out the door, my wife was in a car accident. Another driver blew right through a stop sign and slammed into the driver’s side of our car. My wife is okay; our car is not. The woman who hit her was not distracted by the Mets because the Mets were rained out that day. I don’t know much about her other than she was driving on a suspended license without insurance. God and Ben Franklin gave her that right (No Quarter Without Consent). Who are you or I to tell her how to live?

Equally, my wife could have shot her right between the eyes (Redress of Grievances) and of course that would have solved everything, except my wife doesn’t carry a gun. She probably never will. Can you believe that?

The guy in the pickup truck nodded and drove away. Such things can happen, even in America, depending on the characters, and when they don’t the story seems more stark, more deliberate, more sinful, awful, frustrating, heartbreaking.

#LFGM,

Matt Lang

PS –While I was naming and claiming my desire to watch Jacob deGrom strike out ten batters in a row, in another part of space-time Aaron Nola struck out nine batters in a row, and he looked untouchable, he looked inevitable. Someone got excited, someone texted their friends. On June 25th Aaron Nola, pitching for the Phillies, against the Mets, in New York, struck out ten Mets in a row, tying the record held by the greatest Met of all, The Franchise, Tom Seaver. I listened to all ten while riding my bike.

Be careful what you wish for.

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awohlwen · 4 years

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Feminism Around the World

Anna Wohlwend

Feminism Around the World

When I found out this was one of my options of online English classes to take, I was hesitant but intrigued in this choice. I had never taken a feminist based course before, nor had I found myself to be a huge feminist. Like I said, I never thought of myself as a huge feminist, but I definetely believed in equal rights, equal pay, stereotypes, gender inequality, etc., I just never saw myself as what everyone else sees as the stereotypical feminist who never shaves their armpits. Looking back at my preconceived notions of that stereotype, it only makes me laugh now because there is so much more to being a feminist than having hairy armpits and hating men, and not only that, but there are so many different levels and perceptions of feminism someone can have. I am proud to say that I support feminism stronger than I did before, and I am not ashamed at all to tell people that. This course gave me so much knowledge I did not have before, and I am eternally grateful. The material that stuck with me the most was learning about all the different women all over the world. I would have never been able to acquire so much knowledge about so many different cultures, countries, and religions from any other course or experience. It gave me a chance to understand and sympathize what women different than myself must endure, and it is extremely interesting to find out.

I did not realize how little I knew about other women of different cultures, countries, and religions until I took this class. I had my assumptions and guesses, but never anything factual. After reading, watching, and annotating all the class material, I only realized how little I knew, but loved how much I was learning. From the very beginning when we watched the TED talk “The Danger of a Single Story,” I learned about a woman from Nigeria and some of the stereotypes surrounding her and her country. She stated, “I come from a conventional, middle-class Nigerian family. My father was a professor. My mother was an administrator. And so we had, as was the norm, live-in domestic help, who would often come home nearby rural villages.” The only things I feel like I know, or thought I knew, about Africa and the people that live there are that they are poor and don't have everything here that we do. But obviously from the video, I was very wrong. I feel as though we are taught that Africa is this weak, poor, distraught country that constantly needs help, when in fact it may not be. After watching the TED talk, I felt compelled to learn more about Africa's truths, rather than what the media tells us. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie continued to go on and explain her experience when she came to the United States for school and how her roommate reacted. “So, after I had spent some years in the US as an African, I began to understand my roommate’s response to me. If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa were from the popular images, I too would think Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner.” This portion of the video really opened my eyes because as an American, the media is a huge component of daily living. While as a nation we can make decisions on our own, the media plays a large part in how to sway it. The roommate did not even realize, nor do I think we realize, that unconscious judgements were made immediately as soon as she heard Adichie was from Nigeria. I think because we are fortunate, uneducated, and brainwashed that Africa is this country in need, we see third world nations as incapable without our "help."

One of my favorite reads from the semester and one that gave me some incredible insight was the Introduction to Global Women’s Studies. I felt really excited to learn about global women, especially all the factual and proven evidence behind gender inequality in the world, because then I will have a more knowledgeable and educated basis when talking to people about it. Along with learning more about gender inequality in our own country, I was probably even more intrigued to learn about other countries. I knew very little about cultural, social, religious, and traditional expectations of women in different countries, but I did know that it is completely different than the US. One interesting point the book made was about intersections in gender, the author stated “Global women’s studies also examines intersections between gender and other variables such as race, class, and sexual orientation.” I had never even thought about that aspect of feminism, but there are definitely different expectations for women of different color, race, religion, etc. “The global study of women is rich and rewarding because it requires that we learn about different customs, religions, and forms of government and that we imagine what it would be like to be a woman in another culture.” I thought this was a great aspect of the class, especially for the females, to understand what other women in different countries go through. Many of us will not have the opportunity to see first hand what they go through, so this is a close second.

Another one of my favorite articles we read was Under the Western Eyes by Chandra Mohanty; it gave the reality of western literature and the idea it portrayed of women. Before reading her article, I had never thought about or realized the truth behind her points. Western literature was written to portray any women besides white women as inadequate. Monanty states, "Western feminism is an exclusive and convoluted model which does not apply to women globally. It imposes the idea that white, affluent women are the norm of perfection and that all women should be envious of them and cannot achieve the same status without the same appearance and privilege". Europe has predominantly been white and glorified white women as being the "ideal" look and even thought that the paler/whiter you are, the more attractive you are. Which that in itself is quite disgusting, along with the fact that any other woman that is not of this expectation should be jealous of the "perfect" western woman. She also explained how there are so many stereotypes and preconceived notions about third world women. “What I wish to analyse here specifically is the production of the “third world woman” as a singular monolithic subject in some recent (western) feminist texts.” Monolithic means a large, powerful, and intractably indivisible and uniform. The point that she made about the need to talk about the production of a "third world woman" is so important, especially as women from the United States (a first world country), because we categorize women from "poorer" countries to automatically have completely different problems than the women, like us, do. I felt like as a nation we still saw women from third world countries as poor, weak, little women that needed our saving because they have so little power and rights, when in all reality, I had no idea the things women had to deal with and struggle with for their own feminism. The average person does not know factual evidence or statements about what women from other countries experience, and yet it is so common to act like we do.

Not only did we learn about large-scale global feminist issues, but I learned and was fascinated about the minute facts about all the different countries, cultures, and religions we read and watched about. I had very little knowledge about any traditions of religions besides my own, so when we watched the “Radical women, embracing tradition” and “What it’s like to be Muslim in America” TED talks, along with reading Do Muslim Women Need Saving by Lila Lughod, I had the opportunity to learn a fair amount about other religions. For example, I learned from Kavita Ramdas’ video that when having children in India, having a boy is more desirable for a couple. I also learned that when an Indian woman becomes a widow, there are several different traditions that the woman must face, one being that the widow must wear white for the rest of her life because white is the color of mourning. Also, the bindi and the bangles are usually marriage markers, and by removing them, widowed women mark the end of the part of her life she cannot repair. Within Ramdas’ video, she also talked about her encounters with feminists different than herself, one being a Muslim woman who was in her late age but had not been married off, even though that is tradition in her culture. “...Women were running underground schools in her communities inside Afghanistan, and that her organization, the Afghan Institute of Learning, had started a school in Pakistan. [The Muslim woman] said, ‘The first thing anyone who is a Muslim knows is that the Koran requires and strongly supports literacy. The prophet wanted every believer to be able to read the Koran for themselves.’ Had I heard right? Was a women’s rights advocate invoking religion?” I loved this excerpt because Ramdas caught herself in awe when she heard this Muslim feminist trying to explain how two topics that usually do not go together, actually do belong and coexist. In Dalia Mogohed’s TED talk “What it’s like to be Muslim in America,” she gave her side of the 9/11 attack on New York, and her experiences of being a Muslim in this country. She began, “What do you think when you look at me? A woman of faith? An expert? Maybe even a sister. Or oppressed, brainwashed, a terrorist. Or just an airport security line delay.” Many of those assumptions would be thought of as true by some people, regardless the fact that being Muslim has nothing to do with Mogohed’s personality. Granted I was born the year of the attack so I didn't have my own previous knowledge, but from what I could tell, I feel like (white) Americans didn't have any problem with Muslims before the attack, it was only after when the real issues began. I honestly didn't have a lot of knowledge on the Muslim community and what their beliefs are, but I have been told before things exactly like this, that the women are oppressed and brainwashed. I'm not sure why people feel the need to go about spreading unnecessary and untrue things about a community they truly don't know much about, but it happens frequently. She continued to speak about the 9/11 attack, “Not only had my country been attacked, but in a flash, somebody else’s actions had turned me from a citizen to a suspect.” I cannot imagine how hard it would be to be a Muslim during and after the 9/11 attack. The amount of hate, distrust, criticism, and stereotyping you would receive on a daily basis would be so immense. Because of 9/11, Muslims will always have "the blame" for the attack, and they will always endure harsh stereotyping because of one incident. Not saying that 9/11 was not horrific, because it was, but the fact that one attack by a small group of people now determines how everyone else in that community is treated seems a little harsh.

It was alluring to learn about a concept I had absolutely no first hand experience to, and it is one of my biggest recommendations after taking this course. Lila Lughod spoke in her writing, Do Muslim Women Need Saving, about the hypocricies around stereotypes of Muslims. She wrote, “What is striking about these three ideas for news programs is that there was a consistent resort to the cultural, as if knowing something about women and Islam or the meaning of a religious ritual would help one understand the tragic attack on New York’s World Trade Center and the US Pentagon…” Shd is completely correct, learning about Islamic traditions or beliefs to better understand the attack on 9/11 would be like learning about Christianity to understand the KKK. There is little to no correlation! I could have understood if someone wanted to research ISIS to better understand the thinking behind the attackers, but Islam makes no sense. To add on top of that, they were interviewing the women to try and comprehend the attack. It wasn't even a woman who was part of the hijacking, but somehow the need for answers and explanations was thrown onto Muslim women, who weren't involved what so ever. “In other words, the question is why knowing about the “culture” of the region, and particularly its religious beliefs and treatment of women, was more urgent than exploring the history of the development or repressive regimes in the region and the US role in this history.” I think when we want to learn more about Muslims or the religion we often think we are educating ourselves somehow on why 9/11 happened. What we should be focusing on instead is how repressive regimes even come to be and why they do what they do. Repressive regimes and Muslims do not have anything in common unless we talk about them like they do, which often happens in the US and especially in the media. The experts should have been looking into our international relations with the country where the hijackers were from, along with political and historical issues in the country where they were from. There was no reason why they turned this into a religious and female "investigation." The only thing that came out of going after Muslims and Muslim women, is that now there is a huge social divide between pretty much everyone and Muslims. There is also a highly seen stereotype about Muslims and Muslim women. After reading the whole passage by Lughod, I learned so much about Islamic and Muslim culutres, and realized that some Islamic symbols, like the hijab, that we associate so heavily with deep oppression are in fact free-willed choices. It is important to start detaching these negative associations and start focusing on other ways to make social change.

Overall, this course let me attain knowledge and perspectives about women from other countries that I would have never been able to achieve without seeing first-hand myself. The minute to large scale details I learned about India, Muslims, Nigeria, and many other women across the globe was amazing. Feminism means different things to different people around the world, but there is one idea that is in common everywhere: we are strong and want to be heard.

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mastcomm · 4 years

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10 Nigerian celebrities accused of rape ( Half 1)

For Illustration: Rape

By Michael Adeshina

Rape – The point out of it brings out an ungainly response from each affordable being.

However as unreasonable because it feels and must be, it has develop into a commodity on the corners of many streets, in communities, in church buildings and the society at massive.

It’s all the time a fragile challenge. Each of its path is slippery, for the accusers, the accused, together with commentators. The victims carry the burden for years. Identical because the accused in saner climes.

Many of the accused are already condemned within the court docket of commentators.

A breeze of such accusation has despatched plenty of spectacular careers into darkness.

Nonetheless, some Nigerian celebrities have discovered themselves within the waters of such accusations.

For some, it was the tip, whereas some managed to swim to the opposite facet of justice or let the accusation fade out.

Beneath are some high personalities in Nigeria accused of rape:

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1. Abass Akande.

The information of the arrest of in style Fuji musician, Abass Akande, in March 2014, took Nigerians by storm.

He was arrested after a girl recognized as Miss Olanike Olaiya accused him of rape.

The woman stated the act came about in Akande’s Okota residence, Lagos.

For Akande, it was consensual however Olanike insisted it was rape.

She stated she visited the musician for assist and was raped within the course of.

Nonetheless, in April 2015, Lagos Police declared Abass Akande harmless.

Ngozi Braide, Lagos Police PRO in 2015, described Nike as a blackmailer and an extortionist.

Ngozi stated Olanike fabricated the report.

Nonetheless, the case was dropped as Nike was nowhere to be discovered.

2: Godwin Okpara:

Godwin Okpara.

The previous Nigerian defender’s case was tough to take. He was discovered responsible of sleeping together with his personal adopted daughter.

He was a part of the Nigeria squads that participated within the 1998 FIFA World Cup, 2000 Africa Cup of Nations, and the 2000 Summer season Olympics.

Okpara was excellent on the 1989 U-17 World Championship.

In response to BBC, the adopted daughter had arrived in France as a younger lady in 2000 after Opara moved to the nation to play for RC Strasbourg and Paris Saint-Germain.

Okpara admitted to having intercourse with the adopted daughter, then 13, on one event in 2005. However he stated it was at her instigation.

The daughter testified in court docket that it was after discovering the pair collectively that Linda Okpara, 42, started mistreating her – torturing her and subjecting her to merciless sexual acts.

Nonetheless, he was arrested in August 2005, discovered responsible in 2007 and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.

Okpara’s spouse, Linda Okpara, was sentenced to 15 years in jail for the torture of the identical lady.

3. African China:

African China.

In response to a report by Pulse Ng, the Nigerian artiste, generally known as African China was accused of rape when he was in London for a present.

For African China, the accusation got here from a white girl.

He solely agreed they slept in the identical room and claimed the woman was drunk and couldn’t go residence to keep away from her mother’s wrath.

He stated the woman left with thanks just for her mates to report a rape case to the police.

4. Timaya:

Timaya

“Everyone calls him Timaya” and he was undoubtedly “getting larger” as certainly one of his songs said, however issues virtually took a lethal flip when Sheila B got here out in 2015 to accuse him of rape.

Sheila, an upcoming artist based mostly in Atlanta, America, actually got here arduous on Timaya.

She opened a social media account the place she detailed so much on what had transpired between them.

Nonetheless, Timaya got here out together with his personal narrative. It was “consensual Intercourse” based on the Port Harcourt man.

The saga raised a number of eyebrows however he pulled by way of.

5. Pastor Fatoyinbo:

Fatoyinbo

The accusation in opposition to the “Gucci Pastor” will probably be remembered for years.

At this level, it was a case of well-known personalities in opposition to themselves. Lots of people needed to take sides.

Some went for the spouse of in style soul musician Timi Dakolo generally known as Busola whereas some queue behind the “swagger man”

Previous to Busola’s accusation, a girl had alleged she had ‘consensual intercourse’ with Fatoyinbo. So, When Busola got here out in June 2019, for some, it was a case of “Gucci Pastor, You once more?”

In response to Busola, the flamboyant Abuja pastor dedicated the crime in 2002. Nonetheless, Busola was not the tip. Different women additionally got here out to shout rape accusations however the Lagos-based photographer’s accusation gathered extra consideration.

Nonetheless, the case took one other dimension in November 2019. The accuser grew to become the accused.

A Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja dismissed the rape go well with in opposition to the Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Meeting (COZA).

The court docket dominated that the case lacked substance. In truth, the court docket awarded a value of N1,000,000 in opposition to the plaintiff.

6. Pastor T.B Joshua:

Prophet T.B. Joshua

The identify T.B Joshua comes with a great deal of optimistic and controversial information however none was rape until a selected lady confirmed up in July 2019.

T.B Joshua was accused of rape by a lady recognized as Bisola Johnson.

She additionally alleged that the favored cleric held her captive for 14 years.

She made the declare on June 30 when she took half in a protest in opposition to Fatoyinbo who had been accused of rape by Busola Dakolo.

Nonetheless, T.B Joshua’s representatives claimed the girl has been unstable for a few years. Additionally they urged the general public to ignore her claims saying it lacks credibility.

7. MC Galaxy:

MC Galaxy

This is likely one of the instances that hold one questioning the place some individuals emanated from.

Upcoming actress and singer, Simbee Davis, accused MC Galaxy of rape throughout the warmth of Busola Dakolo’s revelation in opposition to Fatoyinbo.

She claimed MC Galaxy raped her in 2010 however later got here out to debunk her personal declare. She stated it was a joke.

In response to her, she wanted a rape accusation to “blow”(develop into identified).

8.Perruzi:

Daffy Blanco and Peruzzi

Sure, Davido’s boy, Perruzi can be within the combine.

He was accused by a UK-based singer, Daffy Blanc.

She took to her social media to relate a horrible night time she allegedly had with the singer the place he tried to rape her.

Daffy Blanc additionally shared what she described as proof however deleted later.

Nonetheless, that was the final heard in regards to the allegation.

9. Brymo:

Brymo

For music lovers, the identify Brymo means “good music” however there may be nothing good coming from his camp recently when it comes to controversies.

A number of weeks in the past, a Twitter consumer accused the “Yellow” artist of being a rapist.

The Twitter consumer shared conservations with an alleged sufferer of Brymo.

In response to the tweet, a feminine fan paid him a go to within the firm of one other pal at his residence when he raped her.

After the Twitter consumer made the claims, a number of different women took to Twitter accusing him of sexual assault.

Nonetheless, Brymo lastly responded days later. He stated the allegations in opposition to him had been false.

He boastfully known as his accusers to come back ahead.

In response to him, the Lagos State authorities is in contact together with his administration and a full-scale investigation has been launched. 10: Bollylomo:

Brymo and Bollylomo

Nollywood actor Gbolahan Olatunde higher generally known as Bollylomo was additionally compelled to react in Might 2020.

He was accused of rape alongside Brymo.

After accusing Byrymo, a Twitter consumer additionally shared a number of messages she obtained in her DM saying Bollylomo too had raped a number of women and his victims will communicate up when they’re prepared.

Bollylomo, nonetheless, described the accusations as false.

His assertion reads partially; “Pricey Women and Gents,

A Twitter consumer yesterday, got here out to falsely accuse me of sexual assault/rape and has proceeded to make a number of false, derogatory and defamatory statements in opposition to my particular person.

This isn’t an allegation I take calmly and as such, I’ve contacted my legal professionals and given them a full temporary on the problem, therefore the rationale for my delayed response in addressing these false allegations.

Whereas I don’t want to additional gasoline this flagrant falsehood, as this isn’t the primary time these sorts of allegations of rape/sexual assault have been leveled in opposition to my particular person which I didn’t deal with because it was an unsubstantiated try to smear my identify.

Contemplating the severity of those allegations, I deem it pertinent to state that I, Gbolahan Olatunde aka “Bollylomo”, categorically deny these allegations and state that I’ve by no means raped any particular person.

I wish to indulge the accusers to come back ahead, make formal experiences by way of the suitable channels. Any additional try to the smarmy particular person with these allegations will probably be met with the complete weight of the regulation.

To everybody else, I thanks to your steady assist as all the time.”

Hmmm. Thus far, it’s curtains down on the allegation in opposition to Bollylomo.

Make your options on coping with Rape

With all that has been said, how ought to authorities checkmate rape and false accusations?

Don’t hold quiet!

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Mary-Louise Parker introducing the second edition of “The Homebound Project”

Comfort Food by Anne Washburn performed by Ngozi Anyanwu

Worms by Lily Houghton performed by Betty Gilpin

Notes Towards Godliness by Will Arbery performed by Nicholas Braun Directed by Danya Taymor

Zoom on Toast by Brittany K. Allen performed by Christopher Oscar Pena

The Prophet Cassandra Sees a Different Future by Bryna Turner performed by Mary Louise Parker

These Hands by Loy A. Webb performed by Kimberly Hebert Gregory Directed by Jenna Worsham

Gossip by Sarah DeLappe performed by Taylor Schilling Directed by Jenna Worsham

You Best Believe by David Zheng performed by Babak Tafti Directed by Taylor Reynolds

ere is Good by Ngozi Anyanwu performed by Hari Nef Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin

Is This a Play Yet by Marco Ramirez performed by Utkarsh Ambudkar

I Promise by Adam Bock performed by Zachary Quinto Directed by Trip Cullman

Mary-Louise Parker introduces us to the second edition of The Homebound Project, an hour-long online collection of 11 new short plays, by explaining that the theme this time is “sustenance,” and lists “the many ways we sustain and fortify ourselves…. shelter, our vocations, charity, activism, and also food.”

She doesn’t mention the arts.

And, honestly, this second batch of plays in the series, which launched on Wednesday and is available through Sunday, didn’t generally provide as much sustenance for me as the first edition. In place of the first edition’s frequent sense of playfulness, as well as relatively straightforward stories of connection and longing, there are darker and less accessible works reminiscent of the spare and despairing plays of Samuel Beckett.

I’m thinking in particular of two plays – “Comfort Food” by Anne Washburn, and “Here Is Good” by Ngozi Anyanwu – in which the performers (Ngozi Anyanwu and Hari Nef, respectively) rant darkly (in the dark.) But there is also Will Arbery’s “Notes Toward Godliness,” where Nicholas Braun portrays a man who boasts of cutting off all contact with his parents – which he explains insanely will help him reach toward godliness — but his face betrays the self-sabotage of his mission. And in Sarah DeLappe’s “Gossip,” Taylor Schilling portrays a woman who’s asked at a party about a man named Roger, and, after explaining their long-ago relationship and the complications of his personality and her attraction to it, finds out some news about him. We don’t hear what the news is, but we can tell from her face that it depresses her, even while she says “That’s nice.” (Is it that he’s getting married?)

Some of the plays in this collection are neither absurdist nor depressing. But even if they were, it’s hard for me to grasp why I didn’t feel generally as engaged in these plays as the equally avant-garde Mad Forest, or the similarly sad The Sentinels, a play about 9/11 widows – both of which I also saw this week, and raved about.

It could be that I may be tiring of these group efforts; I’ve wondered whether they might be more beneficial to the artists (and the charitable cause for which they are raising funds) than to the audience. But perhaps there is a better clue hidden in the two plays from The Homebound Project second edition that did win me over.

At first blush, they couldn’t seem more different from one another.

In “These Hands,” by Loy A. Webb, Kimberly Hebert Gregory portrays a nurse named Tracee who is telling us a story that turns out to be a simple parable about going to the “Humanity Gala,” with each guest asked for a gift. The nurse feels outshone by one guest’s gift of intelligence, another’s gift of beauty until she realizes she has the gift of her hands – hands that have taken care of people over many years.

In “Is This A Play Yet,” by Marco Ramirez, Utkarsh Ambudkar begins by declaring “ I’d love to be watching a bad play right now” and then elaborates on the different kinds of bad plays, such as “where someone wearing a leotard represents Death,” and “the type of play with a ‘twist’ ending.” But, he says in his own twist, “instead here I am, memorizing lines for a part that doesn’t exist….Now I’m in that painfully boring play.”

“These Hands” feel straightforwardly sentimental while “Is This A Play Yet” could come off as comically cynical. But the first is made lively and credible by a script and a performance that presents a particular, grounded character. And all throughout the second, Ambudkar, while giving off a Bill Murray deadpan vibe, holds a silent infant on his shoulder.

They both felt as if they were speaking to the moment, or maybe, more to the point, to my mood at the moment.

List of plays in Homebound Project, second edition

Comfort Food by Anne Washburn performed by Ngozi Anyanwu

Worms by Lily Houghton performed by Betty Gilpin

Notes Towards Godliness by Will Arbery performed by Nicholas Braun Directed by Danya Taymor

Zoom on Toast by Brittany K. Allen performed by Christopher Oscar Pena

The Prophet Cassandra Sees a Different Future by Bryna Turner performed by Mary Louise Parker

These Hands by Loy A. Webb performed by Kimberly Hebert Gregory Directed by Jenna Worsham

GOSSIP by Sarah DeLappe performed by Taylor Schilling Directed by Jenna Worsham

You Best Believe by David Zheng performed by Babak Tafti Directed by Taylor Reynolds

HERE IS GOOD by Ngozi Anyanwu performed by Hari Nef Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin

Is This a Play Yet by Marco Ramirez performed by Utkarsh Ambudkar

I Promise by Adam Bock performed by Zachary Quinto Directed by Trip Cullman

Homebound Project 2. How DO the arts fortify and sustain us? Mary-Louise Parker introduces us to the second edition of The Homebound Project, an hour-long online collection of 11 new short plays, by explaining that the theme this time is “sustenance,” and lists “the many ways we sustain and fortify ourselves….

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