The Trap of Survival: Reprogramming the Boy Child | Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji | TEDxAdmiralty Way

This topic is very close to come for me and it's because if you were listening to me in a dark room and nobody told you that I was female, you would typically assume it was a man that was speaking. And so I grew up in the middle of boys, being very comfortable around boys, having a lot of male friends. And I would comfortably say that the very first set of people that validated me even as a girl growing up in Nigeria were my my my friends, my boyfriends. And so I've grown to respect and love and trust men b ...