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Thinking About...
by Blessing Omakwu
Thinking About… is a collection of audio essays on womanhood, faith, and the pop culture that shapes us. Hosted and written by cultural strategist and writer Blessing Omakwu, each episode takes one idea seriously, exploring it through culture, lived experience, and questions without easy answers. Born in Oklahoma, shaped in Abuja, and now based in Johannesburg, Blessing writes at the intersections of culture, faith, feminism, and power, drawing on work with the Gates Foundation, UN, and ONE Campaign.Read it on Substack at blessingomakwu.substack.com and follow @blessingomakwu everywhere.
Episodes
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What If Deconstruction Is Only Half the Work?
What if leaving church isn’t the end of the story? For many Christians, deconstruction has become the language of disillusionment. But questioning what we inherited may only be half the work. In this essay, Blessing Omakwu reflects on leaving church without leaving faith, and looks at...
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The Prestige of Black Pain
Why do stories of Black joy still struggle to be taken as seriously as stories of Black pain? Ten years after Insecure first premiered, its achievement still feels unusually radical: it treated ordinary Black life as worthy of prestige. In this essay, Blessing Omakwu explores what she calls Black...
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The Male Breadwinner is Dead
What happens when our romantic ideals outlive the economic realities that created them? The male breadwinner is often treated as a timeless feature of heterosexual relationships. But the economy that made single-income households possible has largely disappeared — and women’s growing economic…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Thinking About… is a collection of audio essays on womanhood, faith, and the pop culture that shapes us. Hosted and written by cultural strategist and writer Blessing Omakwu, each episode takes one idea seriously, exploring it through culture, lived experience, and questions without easy answers. Born in Oklahoma, shaped in Abuja, and now based in Johannesburg, Blessing writes at the intersections of culture, faith, feminism, and power, drawing on work with the Gates Foundation, UN, and ONE Campaign.Read it on Substack at blessingomakwu.substack.com and follow @blessingomakwu everywhere.
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