AI & ethics
Who CODEs the digital rules for gender justice?
Can a digital tool be neutral? A government launches an online portal for reporting gender-based violence. The technical achievement is clear. Now consider the woman in a rural…
Luc Muhizi
Gender & power
The gatherings we must keep
When was the last time you spent an afternoon without a plan? Not an idle moment, but a deliberate stretch of hours devoted only to the company of others. Last Saturday, my husb…
Life & culture
What gives a man the right to grab you?
What happens when a simple act—holding a rail—becomes an excuse for violation? What does it mean when a corporation tells you your safety is less important than its profit? And…
AI & ethics
Your name is raw material: When AI confidently erases you
What does it feel like to watch a machine assemble a stranger and label it you ? It is not a minor error. It is a quiet violence. I asked an AI who I am. It gave me four differe…
Gender & power
The water in your mouth: On silence, strategy, and the unspoken dynamics of power
What does it mean to hold your peace? Is silence a shield or a cage? When does a tactical pause become a permanent surrender? I carry a specific piece of wisdom from my mother,…
AI & ethics
I asked AI who I am. It lied
I asked an AI who I am. It gave me four answers. Four different lives. Four confident, detailed biographies of complete strangers. It lied every time. The first described a tele…
AI & ethics
Your silence is his permission: The bystander's bargain
Your inaction is not passive. It is an active, internal transaction. In the heartbeat between seeing harm and looking away, you make a bargain. You trade her safety for your com…
Gender & power
How women build their own safety
When the police do not come, when the law is a distant rumour, when the house is no longer a shelter, what happens? The world assumes paralysis. It expects waiting. It is wrong.…
Life & culture
Why we choose to disbelieve her
We claim to value truth. We build monuments to justice. We teach our children to speak up. Yet when a woman speaks about her violation, a different machinery engages. Our first…
Life & culture
My silence was complicity
I once sat in a room and helped a man build a cage for his wife. I did not lift a hammer. I did not twist a wire. I simply listened. A friend, a man I respected, dissected his w…
Gender & power
He Was a Good Man: Deconstructing the Duality of Abusers
What do we choose to protect when we call a violent man ‘good’? The phrase echoes in the aftermath, a haunting refrain that isolates survivors and shields perpetrators. We hear…
Life & culture
A new grammar of justice that restores, not punishes
What does justice look like when the verdict is delivered, but the woman is still broken? The current system often fails survivors of gender-based violence. The formal, colonial…