Tax justice & care
The maternal tax
This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, what it me…
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Tax justice & care
Forty years of nothing
This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, what it me…
Tax justice & care
The Ghost in the Market
This series examines tax justice through a feminist lens. Previous pieces asked who holds power over tax systems, how gender assumptions are baked into fiscal policy, and what i…
Tax justice & care
The economic ghost: What does it mean to be an invisible taxpayer?
This is part of a series: "Tax Justice Through a Feminist Lens". The series builds on my previous articles, " Do You Pay Your Taxes? " and " Taxation and the Redistribution of P…
Tax justice & care
The tax system's blind eye to women
This is part of a series: "Tax Justice Through a Feminist Lens". The series builds on my previous articles, " Do You Pay Your Taxes? " and "Taxation and the Redistribution of Po…
Tax justice & care
Taxation and the redistribution of power
This is part of a series: "Tax Justice Through a Feminist Lens" . The series builds on my previous article, "Do You Pay Your Taxes?" The voices in that article asked honest ques…
Tax justice & care
Do you pay your taxes?
Do you pay your taxes? It is a simple question. It deserves an honest answer. Many of us hesitate. We calculate. We think about what we can deduct, what we can hide, what we can…
AI & ethics
Mama, how did you build a world without a phone?
My children ask me now. They hold sleek devices in their palms. They swipe, tap, and connect instantly to anyone anywhere. They ask with genuine curiosity, a little bewilderment…
Life & culture
Your silence, or the friction of voice?
I am a quiet person. My natural reserve is often misread as pride. Yet, I am relentlessly vocal. I say and write the things marked taboo. This contradiction has earned me a labe…
Life & culture
The Heirloom of Hurt: Trauma, Not Curse
What is commonly called a ‘generational curse’ is not a spiritual sentence. It is not a mystic hex placed upon a bloodline. It is unhealed trauma. It is a psychic injury, untrea…
AI & ethics
The nobody at home
A visitor comes to the door. The call goes out. Is there anyone here? Is anyone at home? From within, a woman’s voice answers. No. Nobody. But she is there. Her daughters are th…
Life & culture
Your cumulative wealth in 2026
I do not dwell on what failed. I do not tally losses in a ledger of regret. The exercise is not productive. The question is never what went wrong. The question is what did it re…