“it was very heartbreaking when I finally had to accept okay I can’t go to school. Cause my dad he’s not employed right now he has a Masters from the US he has job experience more than 12 years. Someone could have a Phd, someone could have a master’s and they don’t get a job”
Michelle in Ep36 of our #LegallyClueless podcast
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“Now the thing about that night that changed my life was the way I was introduced to sex as a guy was you first of all you’re there to show how domineering you can be um you show the woman how much you know you show the woman or your partner the strength you have and nobody had ever told me about sex before and in fact I mean the first time I had sex for me I had been sexually abused”
@rixpoet on our video series
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“And when the first years came in September I was there narrating to almost seven thousand students on the admission day And it felt so powerful because at that time it was my first time to get all this media attention So radios were there TV newspapers So I featured in the newspaper on the 18th of November 20 18 On the 19th my ex-boyfriend now my nudes to the public”
Queentah on our tour series
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“I got pregnant We were excited about it because we thought you know it was around the time when our relationship was on this We got this And then we started to realize just the massive differences because my career took off a bit faster than his did now So there was that disparity for I’m making more money than he is He is starting to feel like- maybe you know he’s not where he wants to be”
@iamthe_rae on our video series - full episode on our YouTube channel. Direct link in comments.
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“I know you have no experience You’re a wedding planner but let’s give you the chance And that’s how I got my first client And that was Google It was a shock It was like no one could believe because Google is one of those names that can change your career”
Wanjiku on our video series available on our YouTube
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“he doesn’t know that he’s a boy, how is being hurt gender thing. Like are you hurt or are you not? We’re asking it him if he’s hurt. We’re not asking him if he has male genitalia”
@kittnkiarie on #LegallyClueless podcast episode 35
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“I came across a newspaper article I don’t remember whether I was in class 6 or class 7 but it was about a prominent Kenyan artist Kenyan visual artist I wanted to be a lot of things when I was a kid But this was about a prominent Kenyan artist His name is Kariuki Kafiri I think who’d sold a sketchbook to a Japanese couple for around 60000 You know sixty thousand in early two thousands was a lot of money”
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“now it was my opportunity to shine now i’m creating content every day i wake up with my ka i didn’t even have a stand my phone is poor quality you try lighting up the room with books and and clothes piling up things just to hold your phone so that you can be able to shoot content and that’s how i started and years later here we are”
@mimo_karanja on our video series available on our YouTube channel. Direct link in comments.
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“so we go to his bedroom and I sit at the foot of the bed. He opens the drawer and he takes out this piece of paper and he starts to read. He goes uh Dear Maureen and then I’m like no no I’m also able to read just give me the letter. It was a blank piece of paper this man has started to read off of a blank piece of paper”
Maureen on #LegallyClueless Ep 32
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“then we started pushing for curriculum change at the university. I had a huge fight myself because I was in the most patriarchal institution. And when I started insisting on it I was the only woman again that is my colleagues were all male. They wouldn’t say anything they would just ignore me. For years it was just pushing and pushing. And finally I managed to push 3 courses but it was a huge struggle”
Prof Maria Nzomo on our video series direct link in comments.
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“I went to Nairobi without telling him So when I got to our home because that was like my home I mean my matrimonial home When I got there it was Sunday in the morning because I traveled over Saturday Sunday in the morning So I called him I called him to help me because I had carried a lot of things. He didn’t pick So I struggled with the things I had carried I went I got to the door I knocked at the door and then he came opened the door he’d wrapped his body with a towel. So he was shocked. And when I was at the room the door to the bedroom was open. So if you’re walking towards it you could see inside and I see someone in bed I found this woman in bed”
Queentah on our video series (Mombasa Episode)
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