I was barely out of kindergarten the first time someone told me to think like a wife. I was seven. Just seven. Complaining about the onions in my food when my aunt threw out, “What if your husband likes onions?”Husband? At seven? I was more worried about cartoons and scraped knees, not a man’s food preferences. But that was the seed—the beginning of a long, uninvited...

Get Paid to Write and Connect on Linkmtaa: The New Home for Kenya’s Modern Storytellers In the digital world we live in today, every writer wants more than just to be read. They want to be recognized, to grow their audience, and to earn something back from the knowledge they share. For many years, platforms like Quora gave writers this power — a space to write what they know, help...

I grew up in a house where roles were quietly, but firmly, divided. The kind of home where cooking wasn’t just something women did — it was what defined them. We had help for almost everything else — cleaning, laundry, even the cars — but cooking? That was sacred. That was women’s territory. My mother cooked no matter what. Whether she was exhausted, sick, or...

Let’s start from the very top. Sex, in its most basic form, refers to the biological differences between people — male and female. But beyond biology, sex is also an experience, often shared between two or more people, built on connection, desire, pleasure, and choice. It’s not a sin. It’s not evil. It’s simply human. But for many religious folks? That definition...