Where Is The Public Participation Poem by Rose Kanana
Where Is The Public Participation
My nieces, while we enjoyed our festive season
They debated, debated and debated-the debate was to your peril my darlings
They are all adults- may be with daughters -May be without - but the debate was loop-holed
Your consent period to enjoy sexuality may have a full-house of men and women of integrity as debaters
Probably not even as full as matters national security debates
They want you young and juicier-16 is what they literary said is sweet
Now, they practically want 16 to be sweetest
Should they debate, debate and debate more
We will have no legal obligation to protect you my nieces
While they debate, I want to remind you my dear nieces
That Sexual Rights are enshrined in the declaration of sexual rights
When you are of age like auntie,
You will notice that that declarations state, recognize, affirm, reaffirm
And underscores matters -sexual but we leave you to…
Make your own decisions about being sexual (or not)
The right to tell anyone that you are not comfortable being hugged or kissed in certain ways
The right to ask a partner if she or he has been examined for sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
The right to tell a partner what you would like sexually
The right to stop sexual activity at any time-including during or just before intercourse
The right to sexual privacy, to sexual equity, to sexual health care to sexual information based upon scientific inquiry to emotional sexual expression
Auntie is old school but she has the right to inform her nieces- for rights and obligations are intertwined.
My take on this is that the boy too should be considered, however the bill motion is not progressive at all. Thanks for sharing Rose.
This will be a drawback in Kenya if the bill goes through Rose.Quite unfortunate.
Is it indeed factual that a person has a legal right requiring a partner to cease sexual activity during intercourse if requested to? Or is this poetic license? I question this on grounds not of impulse or heat-of-the-moment practicalities, but more along the lines of some kind of entrapment once consent is granted to have intercourse whether that consent can be rescinded mid act. I'm not looking for a fight, I want to know where the line between poem and fact is in this piece of literature. Thank you.
Dear Lantz Thanks for your question. Poetic license comes with some moral and factual responsibility too. To rest your debate, refer to the ‘declaration of sexual rights Sep 2014’ and the teens sexual rights by pamf.org. Let me know after that if you are in the mood of a fight.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Thanks for sharing Rose, something that law makers need to ponder about at the interest of Kenyan children