Part 2..Food for thought as we expand our conceptualization..when you are privy to the stories of the women who stay silent... @L_A_W_Y_E_R_S_

Part 1..Food for thought as we expand our conceptualization..when you are privy to the stories of the women who stay silent... @L_A_W_Y_E_R_S_

At @L_A_W_Y_E_R_S_ #AGM2026 our keynote speaker @cellasey invites us to expand our conceptualization of the term "vulnerable"women with regards sexual and gender-based violence...."Women in high heels also cry"...

#ChapterHouseDuneLover...I can see myself as a Bene Gesserit😁...read the book.

Read any good books lately? I mean an actual book with paper pages... #booklovers #SaloneX

Teach your boys not to rape. And also not to be silent when their friends are raping. Goodness!

Timely..

It's #InternationalCoffeeDay! A day I can celebrate with gusto! Shout out to our Sierra Leonean coffee producers. Special shout out to @NinasCoffeeLove !

Redistricting...we have new city councils for Freetown: Freetown City Council, Freetown West City Council, Mountain Rural Council, Waterloo Rural Council and York Rural Council. What do you think? #SaloneX

Someone said to me recently that I am "maturing gracefully"...I rolled my eyes in response...lol "They want us Fresh from puberty All the right parts Just unused by men like them (yet) Hairless Hipless Pre prefrontal cortex Naive Groomable Abusable Blank pages for them to write on The sin is when we age When we become Women Every breath Every morning Every day After we leave our innocence behind We walk the world knowing They want us subjugated or Dead An aging Woman is dangerous An aging Woman lived And survived Wisdom in wrinkles Beauty earned by living They want us to hide it Cut the stomach that stretched When growing the future Lift the breast that have been Too heavy with nourishment Pull our faces Until our ears touch behind our necks Starve ourselves Until we are too weak to fight to run Never show them you have lived loved learned and liberated Just mutilate ourselves Until we can pretend to be The child their perversion wants Instead of the Queens we are They rage when we refuse Rage with their flaccid strength While we are just reaching the Pinnacle of our own They will rage into their graves And we shall dance on them All of our years All of our wisdom All of our life On bold display With light joyful feet So the Queens yet to come Can follow us into Sovereignty @LesleHonorePoetry

My wheelhouse! As the passage of the Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Bill continues 'in stasis' at our Parliament.. the Centre for Human Rights-University of Pretoria, in partnership with the African Judges and Jurists' Forum (AJJF) and Legal Access through Women Yearning for Equality Rights & Social Justice (L.A.W.Y.E.R.S). successfully organised a two day (7th-8th September) Judicial Colloquium on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights of Women and Girls in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol). The Judiciary of Sierra Leone headed by the Honourable Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Komba Kamanda, hosted Judges, Magistrates and Judicial Officers from Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Gambia and South Africa. I had the privilege of moderating an interactive panel featuring perspectives of litigators on 'Litigating cases, claiming, entitlement and access to SRHR in Court". One day. #SRHR for all...📷

I hadn't attended one of these in a couple of years, but today was the day! Every year, the start of the Judicial Calendar is marked by two Thanksgiving Services. The first took place on Friday, the 11th at the Freetown Central Mosque--a Muslim service. The second took place today at the St. George's Cathedral- a Christian service. It is called the Assize Service and was attended by the Chief Justice Justice Komba Kamanda, judges, magistrates, lawyers, judicial officers and support staff. H.E. First Lady Fatima Maada Bio was our Special Guest. The service was followed by a procession with all pomp and circumstance (😀) to the Office of the Chief Justice at the Law Courts Building for refreshments and a great opportunity to catch up and network with colleague lawyers and members of the Bench. Vacation over!

It's my birthday, it's my birthday!😁