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Overview The aim of this writing is to examine the various gender identities and sexual alignments from the perspectives of equality, inclusion and belonging. How is the socio-political, religious and economic spaces view other non-traditional gender identities in gender equality discourses? Do the current environment guarantee all genders and sexual alignments the emotional, personal, and social feelings that promote and encourage sense of inclusion and belonging? To answer the above questions, the following outline will be followed: What is gender identity? Types of gender identities Gender identities for entertainment and Self-expressions Sexual Alignment Types of Sexual alignments Yes, to equality: No to equality! Inclusion and Belonging What is gender identity? The word gender has its root in the Latin word, genus . Both the word ‘gender’ and ‘genus’ mean ‘kind,’ ‘sort,’ or ‘type.’ The word gender comes from the middle English ‘ gendre ’ which was borrowed from the Anglo-N

Table of Contents Huan’s Job Hunts Achieving Equal Opportunity in a non-equal opportunity contest Blind Recruitment – Bolstering Equality Equal opportunity has become a buzzphrase in this era where equality, diversity, and inclusion heralded almost every media post, employment policy, and government policy. This notwithstanding, equal opportunity has its limitations; there are some factors that the principle behind equal opportunity cannot change. I will begin with a student's job hunt nightmare.  Huan’s Job Hunts Huan is a Chinese, who for her postgraduate studies at one of the prestigious universities in London. She read Graphics Design and Illustration in her first degree. She had 10 years of work experience in China before enrolling for her Masters in the UK. She completed her master’s with an excellent result, notwithstanding her struggles with the communicative English language. Of course, she had improved her writing, speaking, reading, and listening skills in the English

Table of Contents Fowls and Cockroaches Analogy  Thrasymachus on Justice Scapegoating of Justice Fairness and Impartiality Imagined Justice Implied Justice Conclusion I will begin this writing with an expression: ‘A cockroach cannot be innocent in the gatherings of fowls.’ Is this a ‘matter of fact’ or a ‘matter of statement?’ From experience, cockroaches are insects while fowls are birds and as such, the latter appear as predators of the former. Fowls can have cockroaches as food. The cockroaches before fowls are convicted, condemned, and eaten as food. That’s the way nature has planned it. If the fowls can talk, they will argue that it is justifiable to feed on cockroaches. But for cockroaches, it is not fair that they are condemned as food for fowls. No matter what they do, their innocence always turns out with a guilty verdict. For cockroaches, there is no justice. The expression above can also be a ‘matter of statement’ since it is an empirical declaration. You can either agree or

Table of Contents Diversity Society Nation Country Exclusivity   and Inclusivity Similarity in Difference In this writing, the aim is to examine the concepts or theories that describe the terms diversity or inclusion; and to freely discuss both terms as would any observer in any  society . Why? Because diversity is in every  nation  and  country . You can see that I have mentioned three terms that describe the ‘different aggregate of people living together’. They are ‘society’, ‘nation’, and ‘country’. These terms may seem synonymous; however, they differ in meaning. Their differences will help in understanding the objective of this writing. Just a warning. I do not claim to be a sociologist, ethnologist, or political scientist. I am writing as a free street expounder. As part of this exercise, these terms: society, nation, and country will be defined, and the definitions will help in the elaboration of the claim that: ‘diversity is intrinsically a given while inclusion is socially an

Table of Contents Biafra - who are they?  Politics of ‘Cut and Paste’ Amorphous Amalgamation   The consideration that Southeast/South-South is marginally included in Nigeria's mainstream politics is debatable. This paper argues that the marginalization of the Southeast of Nigeria was the reason for the civil strife that led to the blown-out war.   Biafra - who are they?  Historically, the Republic of Biafra was an unrecognized country in West Africa from 1967 –1970. Territorially, it covers over 29,848 square miles of land. It shared boundaries with Nigeria in the north and west, and with Cameroon in the east, and its coast was on the Gulf of Guinea in the south. Today, former Biafra is made up of the following Nigerian states, namely: Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, and Rivers. Delta state wasn’t included during the late Biafran’s leader Odumegwu Ojukwu's decree founding Biafra, however, the Igbo-speaking areas of today’s Delta state fought