Category: Personal
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I’m the babysitter your mother warned you about
“Wena’s good with kids. She should work as a babysitter!”, my boyfriend’s aunt said in French. And just like any sensitive, semi-woke, semi-feminist 30-something from the global south, I felt attacked. They were in the kitchen preparing lunch while I was five meters away making paper boats with my BF’s nephews, pretending not to hear…