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A chaotic and detailed roundup of March 2026’s biggest controversies affecting women, from pop culture to politics. It begs the question - when do we get break?
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Dearest Gentle Reader,
March is Women’s History Month, and March 8, 2026 was International women’s day. And even if this lovely author wasn’t at the intersection of some of the most marginalised identities in our society, they would still mark March 2026 as probably one of the worst months for women in their generation. Think they’re exaggerating? Let’s find out!
In this article I will iterate most pop culture events that occurred this month, to and with women and you tell me if we need a f*cking break or not. Let’s go!
Heard of the international pop girl group KATSEYE? News of Manon’s hiatus broke on February 20, with a joint statement from HYBE and Geffen. It was announced that the only member of African descent, Manon Bannerman, will be taking a “temporary hiatus” from the group to “focus on her health and wellbeing.” This news has taken aback many fans and ignited discourse online. Screenshots circulating online show a message from Manon’s personal Weverse profile name, Peanutbutterlover02, reading:
“Hi friends. I want you to hear this from me, I’m healthy, I’m okay, and I’m taking care of myself. Thank u for checking in! Sometimes things unfold in ways we don’t fully control, but I’m trusting the bigger picture. Thank you for standing by me. I love you endlessly and can’t wait to see you again.”
However, fan speculation which had never favoured or bought into the so called ‘fair and progressive views of the label’ has been exacerbated by screenshots that appear to show Manon liking an Instagram post from creator Simone Umba, who used Manon’s hiatus to analyze a “trope” she calls “the lone Black girl in girl groups,” mentioning Normani from Fifth Harmony and Leigh-Anne Pinnock from Little Mix and the groups’ respective hiatuses. At the time of the writing of teen vogue’s take on matter, Manon’s like on the post is nowhere to be found, so it’s hard to confirm the veracity of the screenshots.
This lore continued with alleged fake accounts of the only latin member’s dad weighing in on the issue and dug up stories from recent memory including Manon’s role in the group’s video debut, the negative and stereotypical narrative around her character as part of the Netflix Dream Academy show and more. Maybe it’s all nothing and the girl just needs to take a break; labour laws in Switzerland differ from the hustle culture of the USA and Korea after all. But still given her star power the Not Bad actress (this isn’t a diss on her acting chops, it’s the titular name given to the live action short film she starred in) continues to be the a recent example in hot topics concerning fair treatment of the black community, from misogynoir, colourism, fair pay, unequal standards to even cultural appropriation.
Nicki Minaj spent the past year transforming herself from a polarizing rap superstar into a high-profile conservative provocateur, lobbing viral attacks at Democratic leaders, boosting MAGA talking points and earning public praise from President Donald Trump and his allies (Beeferman, 2026).
It’s all been said before March, she’s turned her back on the most vilified group by this current administration and the only that has propped her career like no other. Blacks, Queers and Black queers. Don’t even get us started about the false christian genocide rumours she spread at the UN about us, Nigerians. Long story short, she’s a clown, and we can all agree. However along with the animorphication of her values, has come a change in her visual aesthetic. If the Mar-A-Largo face has become the ideal for white Maga women, Nikki has proved that for a woman like her, with gender affirming hot girl hospital visits, not to mention drag-inspired hair and make up.
Nikki Minaj blocked me on Twitter this morning, and while the little gay boy in me is heartbroken I respect her decision. So let’s talk about why? Last week Nikki spoke at the World Liberty Forum; a cryptocurrency forum at Mar-A-Largo dressed like this. I wrote:
“The immediate, complete decuntification is such a tell. There is no room for creativity or self expression within a fascist movement. Here’s your beige jacket and flat hair and boring makeup. Enjoy”.
To be clear, Nikki looks lovely but it’s also a far cry from the fashion she’s been known for over the last two decades. Now you can, as many of her fans did, tell me that I look like shit and my nails are tacky and my clothes are bad and I’m wearing clown make-up as a man. But you can’t tell me that I don’t look like myself. That’s one of the beautiful things about living in a multicultural society; everyone can express themselves. Fascism on the other hand creates very strict in-groups and out-groups, and it’s very important that you adhere to the norms of the in-group because that is what grants you safety (for now). In the US those rules are guided by Eurocentric and heteronormative beauty standards which is why right wing men and women tend to have a certain look…anyway, maybe I'm just coping, SUPERBASS was my jam!
The real story lies in the survey that revealed that a lot of the support she’s been getting during this transition was fueled by bots.
TBH all of this happened in late February, but the effect could be felt this past month
Guys, we just at #3 and I'm already depressed. Seriously, my mood has turned for the worse as I write this and you can probably tell. As if March couldn’t get worse and women couldn’t enjoy their interests without getting spat in the face. From Gigachads at Gucci to Patrick Bateman cosplay at Tom Ford, fashion designers are mining the internet’s most obsessive male-beauty subcultures for inspiration—and creating an unsettling cultural feedback loop in the process (Sobrevilla, 2026).
Clavicular, né Braden Peters, a 20-year-old streamer who has become the poster child for terminally online young men who want to optimize their appearance, closed downtown designer Elena Velez’s show at New York Fashion Week last month. Clavicular’s extreme looksmaxxing routine, for one, includes everything from injecting peptides to smoking meth to bonesmashing, which is, as it sounds, a practice that involves taking a hammer to one’s jaw purportedly in order to stimulate angular bone regrowth. Clavicular’s feminine foil, Liv Schmidt, founder of an online weight-loss-influencing platform called Skinni Société, also walked the show. You ready that right: THE SKINNY SOCIETY.
The modern Narcissus was presented once more when Haider Ackermann invoked American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman in his third collection for Tom Ford. In one of the 2000 film adaptation’s most infamous scenes, he catches his own gaze in the mirror, mid-coitus, points at himself as if to say “you’re the man” and flexes his biceps, maintaining eye contact with his reflection (Sobrevilla, 2026). He also kills the women he f$#@s. I guess it will never be too soon to make money out of femicide. UK-based feminist pop culture podcast; Polyester does a 29 minute deep dive into this fashion show in all its insidiousness, and we at Jetron highly recommend a listen, regardless of gender.
Speaking of Fashion, Tyra, Tyra, Tyra, Tray. I say it 4 times so she doesn’t appear next to me in a trenchcoat. Where to begin. Every middle class Nigerian girl knows who Tyra is. We grew up loving her and looking up to her. Tyra Banks, body tea, personality aspirational, show addictive. February 16 was the official release date for Netflix’s Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model but oh how the discourse climaxed and calcified this past March. Most people were not new to the cringe-worthy, outdated antics of the show, as many content creators have dived and broken down the show’s failings to oblivion, with a spec of nostalgia cased in guilty pleasure. But this show inevitably opened a brand new can of worms. From its tried and convicted bad faith antics to the meta realisation that the showrunners (Tyra included) still take no responsibility for it. Yet there was something new to be learned from Nigel and Jay’s exit to Miss Jay’s medical crisis. To Tyra’s overall treatment of them, the girls and gays all came to the sobering realisation that damn, we really have no role models (pun intended).
But as a feminist, and media literacy warrior I am sworn to nuance, and have to include the overlooked perspective that Tyra is in fact a monster of the modelling Industry’s making, and should be seen not as a TV villain but as a cautionary tale for black women everywhere looking to change the system without falling into the trap of commercialisation, capitalism and apathy.
Speaking of the ills of entertainment, let’s take a minute to talk about our very own BAFTA winning Yoruba actress Wunmi Mosaku. The latest edition of the New Yorker features a detailed profile of Oscar-nominated actress Wunmi Mosaku, who is up for the Best Supporting Actress gong for her role in 'Sinners'. But the accompanying illustration by João Fazenda has drawn a prompt backlash due to its perceived lack of resemblance to Mosaku. (John, 2026).
Placed beside actual photographs of Mosaku, the contrast is startling. Because the real Wunmi Mosaku looks nothing like that…Within hours of the issue circulating, fans, cultural commentators, and entertainment blogs began dragging the illustration for what they said was a startling failure to capture Mosaku’s likeness. Some reactions were even harsher. Critics online called the image “disrespectful,” “disappointing,” and even “anti-Black,” arguing that the illustration drained Mosaku of the beauty, charisma, and presence that define her public image. (Patton, 2026)
In an Opinion piece for Newsone Dr. Stacey Paton writes; The controversy has also spilled into discussion forums and entertainment spaces, where users have debated whether the problem lies in the illustration style itself or in a broader lack of care in depicting Black women in editorial art. Editorial illustrations are supposed to capture the spirit of their subjects, even when they exaggerate or simplify certain features. A stylized portrait still recognizes the individuality of the person it depicts. Here, our eyes are not lying to us. Mosaku’s individuality disappears. And when the subject is a Black woman, that disappearance carries history.
For centuries, caricature has been used to diminish Black folks, to flatten our features, distort our presence, and reduce us to something less than fully human. Black folks are often told that we’re imagining things. That we’re being overly sensitive. That what we see and hear isn’t really there. But Black people have spent generations learning how to recognize disrespect even when it arrives disguised as something else, whether it is an editorial oversight, a stylistic choice, or an ‘honest mistake.’ We know what our eyes see. We know what our ears hear. So the question isn’t whether these institutions noticed. The question is this: How many ways do powerful institutions think they can call us the N-word? The New Yorker’s Wunmi Mosaku Illustration Reads Like A Visual Version Of The N-Word.
Oh did you think these white men and their wahala ended with the Incels on the runway? Let me introduce you to the DOGE bro depositions.
Elon Musk’s disciples in his so-called Department of Government Efficiency were embedded across federal agencies with a mandate to fire thousands of public employees and radically cut federal spending. When Musk deployed DOGE into the National Endowment for the Humanities, which provides vital financial support to research and arts programs, Musk’s staff abruptly choked off more than 1,400 grants, eliminating tens of millions of dollars in public funding within less than a month.
More than 10 hours of newly released video testimony from January uncovers how two DOGE operators relied on ChatGPT and their own largely uninformed judgments to make sweeping decisions about funding for a range of programs and projects — and the people who rely on them (Woodward, 2026). Currently unavailable to watch anywhere in full,
These.
Videos.
Went.
Viral.
Let’s talk about why?
During his hours-long deposition, Justin Fox admitted to using ChatGPT to sift through grants before DOGE started slashing. They used a prompt: “Does the following relate at all to DEI?” They then asked the generative AI chatbot to “Respond factually in less than 120 characters” and begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation.” When he reviewed a grant for a documentary about Black civil rights, he agreed that the project violated Trump’s executive order on DEI because it “focused on a singular race.” “It is not for the benefit of humankind,” said Fox, “It is focused on this specific group, or a specific race, here being Black,” he said.
Wondering where women come into this?
When asked why a documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust would be considered “DEI,” Fox said: “It’s the gender-based story that’s inherently discriminatory to focus on this specific group.”
And asked what he means by “inherently discriminatory,” he replied: “It’s focusing on DEI principles. Gender being one of them.” (Woodward, 2026).
Oh, are you gay and reading this?
While Fox compiled what he thought were the “craziest” and “other bad” grants, turning to three dozen keywords, including “LGBTQ,” “BIPOC,” “Tribal,” “ethnicity,” “gender,” “equality,” “immigration,” “citizenship” and “melting pot.” One of the “craziest” grants reviewed by Nathan Cavanaugh, the second half of DOGE represented in this deposition, concerned a book that explored the legacy of HIV and AIDS activism and prison abolition.
“It references feminist and queer insights into prison abolition and LGBTQ studies,” he said. Another proposal for a public series called “Examining experiences of LGBTQ military service” aimed to discuss the experiences of marginalized U.S. service members. Asked why the project was flagged for termination, Cavanaugh said “Because it explicitly says LGBTQ.” (Woodward, 2026).
To be clear he says these with the smuggest look a chauvinist rich cunt could give whilst turning and smirking to his lawyer. I think my guy was even chewing gum. It was giving; The Social Network (2010) except human lives were on the table. A lot of them being African and Women.
In this video by Context on how US funded clinics in Namibia have had to shut down due to Aid cuts or John Oliver’s response, in this engaging episode of Last week tonight. On Trump calling USAID (the world’s largest humanitarian donor) a scam, he noted that you can’t just call anything you don’t like a scam. If not that would include Peppa pig and low-rise jeans, feelings are not fact!
The consequences of these cuts ... .have had real impact on people around the world engaged in the act of saving lives, like this nurse, who, among other things, vaccinates children in remote areas of Uganda (Oliver, 2026).
To reach the isolated eastern Uganda mountain communities that need her help, nurse Agnes Nambozo scales a treacherous 1000-foot ladder. It's too steep for small children, mothers carrying babies, and the sick to climb down. Now Nambozo's path has gotten tougher. USAID cuts have eliminated many jobs at her clinic. As she and those who remain try to take up the slack, avoiding burnout could be as much of a challenge as getting to the isolated communities that need her help. (Yang, 2025)
Did you watch the videos above?
Did you shed a single tear?
Are you a straight Gen Z woman?
Well we’re just halfway through.
On the 5th of March King’s College London released a study that concluded that: Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband.
Apparently, 31% of Gen Z men agree that a wife should always obey her husband and one third (33%) say a husband should have the final word on important decisions, according to a new global study of 23,000 people. By contrast, far fewer Gen Z women agreed that a wife should always obey her husband (18%) and an even smaller share of Baby Boomer women (6%) held that view. The 29-country survey which included Great Britain, the USA, Brazil, Australia and India, finds that young men today are more likely than those in older generations to hold traditional views about gender roles. Yes the Incels rear their ugly head for the third time in this article.
According to the Hon Julia Gillard AC, Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, King’s Business School;
"It is troubling to see that attitudes towards gender equality are not more positive, particularly among young men. Not only are many Gen Z men putting limiting expectations on women, they are also trapping themselves within restrictive gender norms.
“We must continue to do more to dispel the idea of a zero-sum game in which women are the only beneficiaries of a gender-equal world. We need to ensure everyone is taken on the gender equality journey, with a clear understanding of why it benefits all of society. This report provides sorely needed knowledge on global gender equality trends.
As a society we need to resist the pressure to go backwards and accelerate the pace of change. Good research is critical to reasoned debate and forward progress.”
Maybe next March.
From Melanie Martinez to Chappelle Roan, the women hate train just keeps running through artists like their tunnels. From every baby fan of Martinez desperate to be on the right side of history as they regurgitate the debunked claims of her rape allegations by her former best friend to Gay Elder Boy George telling Roan “Boundaries are boring”. It doesn’t even stop there as you all well know the last days of March, the drag artist was privy to an onslaught of vitriol due to the ‘breakfast incident’. This story has been told to death and I won’t waste ink on another white woman no matter how good her music, style and overall everything is. What really stood out to me were the consequences of actions she did not take nor orchestrate. The Mayor of Rio banned her from the city, and so early in her career too? I’m not one to measure the father’s love for his step daughter but we both know it was never about her but her as an extension of him.
But to whom I really wanted to talk about; Rihanna. The Florida woman who allegedly shot at the Los Angeles mansion of pop superstar Rihanna has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and more than a dozen related charges. Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, 35, is accused of trying to kill Rihanna after allegedly firing a semiautomatic rifle at the musician's Beverly Crest mansion at 13:15 local time (21:15 GMT) on 8 March.
Court documents allege Ortiz was trying to shoot Rihanna, rapper A$AP Rocky, their three young children and others who were in the home and another adjacent property. No one was injured. Ortiz, who could face a life sentence, remains in detention and entered her plea on Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court through her attorney. (Saad, 2026).
It really do be your own sometimes.
The worship to entitlement paradox that comes with the Patriarchy does not stop at men who are abusers but can permeate to other genders too. Women are more likely to suffer the repercussions of parasociality, it’s a tale as old as Bjork’s career and more than a few women have paid the price. You name them; Britney Spears, Princess Diana & Selena who died 31 years ago YESTERDAY btw on the 31st of March.
Speaking of Brazil, since we have no reason to visit Rio, why not make a U-turn to Sao Paulo? where the far-right promoted yet another horror show when state deputy Fabiana Bolsonaro (any relation? Who cares) committed the practice of blackface (painting herself to pretend to be a black person) in the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo to make transphobic insults to Erika Hilton.
During a plenary session at the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (Alesp), Fabiana dedicated her speaking time to a historical practice of humiliation and dehumanization of Black people, painting herself Black in a despicable racist act. At the same time, she combined this anti-Black act with a transphobic statement against Erika Hilton, claiming that;
"Now, at 32 years old, I decide to put on makeup, to cross-dress as a Black person. And now, have I become Black?"
Fabiana used anti-scientific and transphobic arguments, combining her disgusting performance with the claim that trans women don't understand feminist issues because they don't have a uterus. In an attempt to mask her transphobia, she claimed that "transsexuals must be respected," while arguing that trans women supposedly take away space from cis women. This statement adds to several other attacks on Erika Hilton since she was appointed to chair the Women's Rights Defense Committee in the Chamber of Deputies (Guitzel & Monday, 2026).
No words.
From Bridgerton Alumni Charithra Chandran in her role in Netflix’ Live action remake of One piece, to current Bridgerton star, South Africa’s Masali Baduza. These people continue to ruin our month with their annual hamper of racist, colourist, xenophobic and sexists hate. I mean I just can’t. I wanna skip to the end. The most important part of this blog, if you stayed with me through the femme hysteria, I’d like us to unpack what happened in Delta state.
What should have been an expression of heritage became, according to multiple accounts, a coordinated assault on women — a breakdown not only of order, but of the very cultural codes the festival was meant to uphold.
Traditionally, the Ozoro festival is not an impromptu affair. It is announced, structured, and governed by clearly communicated rules — including restrictions that often require women and girls to remain indoors during specific hours. But this time, something critical was missing. There was no formal notification. No clear guidance. No community-wide sensitisation, The Guardian investigation revealed.
That vacuum may have proved deadly.
Unaware of any restrictions — or even that a festival had been sanctioned — women and girls went about their normal routines. Students of Delta State University, Ozoro, and visitors unfamiliar with local customs found themselves suddenly trapped in a hostile environment they neither anticipated nor understood. What followed, according to eyewitness accounts and emerging evidence, was not random. It was systematic. Early findings suggest that criminal elements exploited the ambiguity surrounding the festival to carry out targeted acts of sexual violence. Women were allegedly stripped, molested, assaulted — some raped — in broad daylight or under the thin veil of festivity (Osanyade, 2026).
Now, I’m an abolitionist, and I don’t know what you did that night when you heard the news about the mob violence, but I definitely went to bed fantasizing of being the lawyer from the DOGE bros deposition, grilling those assailants to an early grave. Where is Miss. Nigeria Nicki now?
So you’ve been female rage baited, swallowed the pay off and now it’s time for some after care. This month sucked, and I have a 10 page draft to prove it, but it wasn’t all bad. A lot of good stuff happened with women and gender minorities this year.
Golden’s first k-pop song of the year win
Alysia Liu for teen vogue
Ok I’m blanking out, my brain is fried.
