MzAgams

I do not believe freedom is granted.
I do not believe systems built to dominate us can be reformed to set us free.
I do not believe power—once concentrated—voluntarily dissolves itself.

I believe in walking away.
I believe in building alternatives.
I believe in women who are too independent to be controlled and too connected to be isolated.

This is my philosophy:

I am a libertarian feminist, in the lineage of Igbo women who made their own markets,
of African feminists who built networks outside the state,
and of global sisters who refuse both patriarchy and paternalism.

I do not wait for permission.
I do not beg for inclusion.
I do not negotiate with systems designed to shrink me.

Because I have seen the evidence, and I have seen it again:

Look no further than Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, a woman who dared step into Nigeria’s Senate, only to be met with the full force of sexual harassment, intimidation, and institutional hostility—led brazenly by none other than Senate President Godswill Akpabio.¹
Her crime? Winning an election as a woman. Speaking with confidence. Expecting dignity.

This is what happens when women try to “participate” inside male-dominated power structures.
This is what happens when we believe the lie that “inclusion” equals safety.
But these systems weren’t built for us, and they certainly weren’t built to protect us.

This is why my ancestors were wiser.
The Igbo women of southeastern Nigeria knew better than to force themselves into male arenas, begging for a seat.
They built their own.
They created parallel economies—women’s markets, women’s councils—operating with power and purpose, largely shielded from the sexual predation that flourishes when women are forced into proximity with unchecked male authority.

That’s not nostalgia for segregation.
It’s not a call for some enforced, religious-style division of the sexes.
I reject any ideology that locks women away under the guise of “protection.”
But I do understand what those women understood:
When women control their own spaces, wealth, and decision-making,
harassment has fewer places to hide.
Predators have fewer opportunities to pounce.
And freedom becomes more than theory. It becomes practice.

So here is the future I claim:

A world where women are economically untouchable.
Where community is voluntary, not obligatory.
Where oppressive systems become irrelevant—not because they finally fixed themselves, but because we’ve stopped needing them.

Wealth. Mobility. Solidarity. Innovation.
These are not luxuries. They are weapons.
And I choose to wield them.

I do not dream of better systems.
I dream of exiting the broken ones.
I dream of outgrowing the ones that want me small.
I dream of women everywhere realizing we can leave—and when we leave, we can build.

This is my work.

This is my life.
This is my refusal.
This is my manifesto.

Exit Feminsim

And I’m just getting started.

Footnotes

1. For details on Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s harassment allegations against Senate President Godswill Akpabio, see reporting by Premium Times, TheCable, and Channels TV. These reports detail her formal complaint following repeated, public harassment in Nigeria’s National Assembly. ↩