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diversity & inclusion feminism Women's Empowerment

Anti-Semitism Isn’t History, It’s Alive and Real. And Other Things I Learned.

  • Posted by ayb
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  • September 15, 2021

I held my fourth You Speak, We Listen: Together We Stand in August. (And I meant to post this article here ages ago.) You Speak, We Listen: Together We Stand (YSWL) is my quarterly virtual storytelling event for womxn. I created this virtual stage for womxn and their stories, last spring as we were under…

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diversity & inclusion feminism Women's Empowerment

10 Things I Learned from the LGTBQ+ Panel at You Speak, We Listen

  • Posted by ayb
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  • June 22, 2021

I just held my third You Speak, We Listen: Together We Stand a couple of weeks ago and the power of the stories reminded me of why I believe in this event.  You Speak, We Listen: Together We Stand (YSWL) is my quarterly virtual storytelling event for womxn. It was born out of my want…

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commentary feminism resilience

How Being Called the N Word Defined Me As a Mother

  • Posted by Guest Blogger
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  • October 25, 2020

The following is a guest post contribution from one of the You Speak, We Listen speakers (Sept 2020). NIGGER! NIGGER! NIGGER! I can still hear those words piercing through my ears as if it were yesterday.  I heard that vile word for the first time in my adult life while driving my car in Southern…

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commentary feminism resilience

Be Present, Be Powerful, Be the Change You Wish to See

  • Posted by ayb
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  • October 19, 2020

On Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 I did something that terrified me. Not in the boogeyman under the bed ready to snatch your ankles and drag you underneath kind of terrifying, but the jump from an airplane in exhilaration kind of terrifying. The kind of terrifying that comes with the internal knowing you’re about to do…

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