Comfort women refers to girls and women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in territories they occupied between 1932 and 1945. The English term comes from the Japanese word ianfu, a euphemism meaning "consoling woman". The system was part of

At age 10, she sabotaged her arranged marriage by chewing raw aubergine until her teeth turned jet black. At age 6, her family held her down for female genital mutilation. At age 50, Egypt’s government threw her in prison. From her cell—using a smuggled eyebrow pencil on

People will assume you've never been through anything because you don't carry a victim mindset, and your trauma isn't your personality

Babies medicines are flavored and sweetened because they think children want it that way But no one thinks about us as adults. I want to bite into strawberry paracetamol, not that bitter thing they force me to take

The judge told her she had two choices: go to prison for six months, or submit to her husband. She was 22 years old, and she had never even met the man. She chose prison. Then she wrote a letter that would change Indian law forever. Bombay, 1885. Rukhmabai sat in a courtroom,

One of the reasons I’m transcribing all my compositions is to give them a life beyond my own, hoping they can be discovered by others long after I’m gone. #Ngiyabongamina

There is a Japanese Legend that says: "Whether it's a machine, a house, or a relationship... Maintenance is always cheaper than repairing." What you don't maintain, you eventually lose.

We have a serious public toilet shortage in Zimbabwe

How lucky we are to experience boring, ordinary, uneventful days. Somewhere in the world, that kind of safety is unimaginable.

A Brazilian grandfather with vitiligo crocheted a doll that looked exactly like him for his granddaughter. João Stanganelli Junior from Brazil took up the hobby after heart problems slowed him down from his old job. He carefully added the same white skin patches he has lived

She was a 35-year-old beauty salon owner in Brest, France, when the Nazis marched into her city. She had no military training. No government backing. No weapon. What she had was a decision. The morning after German soldiers arrived, Andrée Peel began hiding fleeing French

As a parent you shouldn't be telling your kids that you sacrificed your life for them, It’s mean, manipulative and not true. You chose to have your kids and nobody forced you to have them. It’s your responsibility to take care of them

Alice Catherine Evans spent years studying something most people never thought twice about: milk. In the early 1900s, it was considered pure, wholesome—safe by default. But Evans saw something others didn’t. Beneath the surface, there was danger. Working quietly as a

Did anyone in your family ever read Reader's Digest? That little magazine was always around - on the table, in the bathroom, tucked in a drawer. Short stories, jokes, and advice you somehow always read. Who remembers it?

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a

No church has ever held prayers for low sp€rm count…..it’s only barren women.

Appeal. Lost my wallet containing Zimbabwe ID, UK Driver's license, Bank cards , Santander,Revolut, Starling on Friday evening. I probably dropped it on Hardy Close Vainona, Harare when I jumped out of tgd car to take over the driver's seat after the journey from Njanja

In 1970, an Australian wheat farmer got into a dispute with his government over how much wheat he could sell. So he declared his farm an independent country. The government ignored him. He ruled it as a prince for the next 50 years. His name was Leonard Casley. He owned a 75

For Inuit women, survival has never been just about enduring the Arctic—it has always been about knowledge, skill, and identity carried carefully from one generation to the next. In a place where life depends on precision, Inuit women mastered what others might overlook. They