Minna Salami is a Nigerian, Finnish and Swedish writer, feminist theorist, and lecturer. She is a co-director of the feminist movement, Activate, she sits on the Advisory Board of The African Feminist Initiative at Pennsylvania State University, and the Editorial Board of The Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Sahel. She founded the multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan.com, which connects feminism with contemporary culture from an Africa-centred perspective. The author has recently published Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Zed & Harper Collins, 2020). This text is based on an excerpt from this book. Info: msafropolitan.com/ E-mail: info@msafropolitan.com