Part 1 – before
Owami
My mother and aunts have much to answer for. I wish I had time to do all those self-help – I mean, empowerment – workshops that are all the rage nowadays, and tell young people, ‘It’s a lie. It’s all a lie.’ The lie being, of course, that in heterosexual relationships, women are responsible for men’s behaviour. My past is replete with the many times I have been told that if bad things happened to me, it would be my fault. But hey, I am getting
