{"id":8299,"date":"2024-04-28T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T11:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/involvement.co.ke\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2024-04-28T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T11:31:20","slug":"clothing-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/clothing-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothing the revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Susan Majimbo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#038;nbsp<span style=\"font-size:0px; color:#ff0000;\">\ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csshjxc.com\/\">\u58ef\u967d\u85e5<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p>My heart breaks for Sarah, she was attacked by three men, beaten blue, and stabbed. Her sight is blurry because unfortunately there is bleeding in one of her eyes (According to a report by <em>Usikimye<\/em>, a Kenyan based revolutionary organization that works towards ending Gender Based Violence). Why you may I ask? She was dressed like a man. The story of Sarah is not new. The masculine rubric in our country is threatened by women like Sarah, who confidently choose to express themselves differently from what defies the expectations that have been kept on women.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Oyerunke Oyewumi writes in <em>The Invention of Women<\/em>, \u201cIf gender is socially constructed then gender cannot behave in the same way across time and space.\u201d She argues that it is only logical to assume that gender construction need not have existed at all in some societies, as we must acknowledge the diverse factors such as culture that must have been part of the construction. This is to say that gender transcends societal expectations that are forcefully placed on women particularly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gender is not a rigid concept.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is disheartening to acknowledge that modes of dressing among women are reasons that could endanger the lives of women. How women dress does not justify any forms of violence and harm inflicted on them. This has been a notion that has been challenged through slogans such as \u201cmy dress my choice\u201d which are reminders that women have the liberty to control their bodies and preferences. Of course, this has been met by counter-narratives such as \u201chow you dress is how you\u2019ll be addressed\u201d, which in my opinion promotes rape culture and violence against women.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is, that there is no justification for any form of violence by choice of dress!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Majimbo &#038;nbsp\ufeff\u58ef\u967d\u85e5 ; My heart breaks for Sarah, she was attacked by three men, beaten blue, and stabbed. Her sight is blurry because unfortunately there is bleeding in one of her eyes (According to a report by Usikimye, a Kenyan based revolutionary organization that works towards ending Gender Based Violence). Why you may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}