Just because love is compromised by patriarchal society doesn’t mean it has lost its ability to transform us and, through us, the world we build.

A couple of weeks ago, one of us (Evelina) attended a seminar with the feminist legal scholar Annica Rudman. Rudman, who has lived and worked in South Africa for the past two decades, spoke about a landmark case: Mary Sunday v. Federal Republic of Nigeria. Sunday lived in a region notorious for entrenched patriarchy and epidemic levels of domestic violence against women. For years, she was in a relationship with a police officer who routinely brutalized her. One evening, dissatisfied with the stew she had cooked for him, he hurled both the pot and the stove at her. Sunday was left severely burned and lost both her ears. Her fight for justice str

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