Raising Women Magazine Issue 037 – February 2026
Visibility without integrity is performance. Voice without community is exposure. This edition honours women who speak anyway, who build anyway, who love anyway.
RW MAGAZINE Issue 36 – FEB 2026
February arrives wrapped in expectation. Red roses, grand gestures, and a narrow definition of love that often leaves women carrying far more than they receive. This edition of Raising Women Magazine gently resists that script. Ahead of Valentine’s Day, we chose to centre love as it is actually lived by women: complex, layered, and deeply […]
Breaking Isolation: The Mental Health Benefits of Community
By ikupolusi Ariyike Isolation doesn’t always announce itself as loneliness. For many women, it shows up quietly masked by busyness, responsibility, and the pressure to appear “fine.” You can be productive, surrounded by people, and still feel deeply alone. Over time, this kind of isolation takes a toll on mental health, affecting emotional balance, self-worth, […]
What Are You Craving, Really?
By A.C.E Cravings get a bad reputation. We treat them like a lack of discipline or a secret we should not admit out loud. We say things like “I’m trying to be good” or “I should not want this,” as though wanting food is a moral issue. But cravings are not random. They are messages. […]
From Group Chats to Lifelines, Modern Sisterhood as Love
By Ikupolusi Ariyike Once upon a time, love stories were told almost exclusively through grand romance gestures, fairy-tale endings, and the promise of “happily ever after” wrapped up in another person. But for many women today, some of the deepest, most sustaining love doesn’t arrive with flowers or vows. It comes in group chats, voice […]
Romantic Love Is Overrated. Community Love Is Undervalued.
By Ifeanyi’s Daughter Every February, love is reduced to a single story. It is presented as romance. As desire. As partnership. As something that happens between two people and is validated by flowers, dinners, and public affirmation. For a brief moment each year, love is framed as something soft, beautiful, and private. Everything else fades […]
THE MANY FACES OF HER: LETTERS WRITTEN IN LOVE TO THE WOMAN BECOMING
By Francisca Sinjae February is loud about love. It sells it in red boxes, ties it with ribbons, and insists it must be dramatic, romantic, and visible. Love, according to February, should arrive with flowers, witnesses, and proof. But this letter is not for that kind of love. This is not a love letter to […]
Unpaid Care Work: The Economy Women Keep Running for Free
By Tom Boyd Every day, millions of women wake up and go to work without clocking in. They cook. They clean. They care for children, elders, relatives, neighbours, and sometimes entire households. They organise lives, manage emotions, and keep families functioning. And when the work is done, there is no paycheck, no pension, no promotion, […]
Women’s Health Investment Outlook 2026: Why Only Six Percent of Funding for Nearly Half the Population Matters
By Tilly Boateng In January 2026, the World Economic Forum published a landmark report titled Women’s Health Investment Outlook: 6% of Funding for Nearly 50% of the Population that exposes one of the most significant and persistent inequities in global health. The report reveals that women’s health receives just six percent of private healthcare investment […]
Why Do We Treat Love Like Ownership Instead of Partnership?
By Ifeoma Udu Somewhere along the line, love started sounding like real estate. People do not just fall in love anymore. They claim. My man. My girl. My person. My wife. Somewhere between childhood fairytales and adult situationships, society decided that affection should come with a tiny invisible “Property Of” tag. From childhood, we are […]