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My coworker Abbi Janes and I do a monthly #MasterClass challenge (it’s really not that hard though 😉). We pick a topic, pick a class to listen to, and then we share our learnings with each other at the end of the month. When possible, we even implement what we learn! ⁉️Dec topic - #DEI Our chosen lesson - Redefining Feminism by Gloria Steinem My takeaways - 👉 Your voice is the most #powerful tool you have to affect change. 🗣️📣 “No one is invisible when they demand to be seen. No one is powerless when we come together.” - Amanda Nguyen 👉 You can never be whole if you are terrified of making a #mistake. 💔 “Your no makes the way for your yes…Being able to say no makes yes a choice.” - Adrienne Maree Brown 👉 What #revolutionary thing can you do today? 💗🛫 “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” - Gloria Steinem Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gJ-_HRPi

Asume that I can Amazing message about inclusion. But also amazing message all around. This speaks firstly to the incredible power fostered in each of us through confidence and trust. And then to extending this confidence and trust to others, undeterred by biases or popular social belief. https://lnkd.in/djSegZrC

Dynamic and inclusive, Here is Laura Valencia reading S. S is for spiteful. Laura excels as a community organizer and coalition builder, skillfully uniting individuals for collective action and social change, embodying leadership and collaboration in her dedication to fostering unity and empowerment. The Latin word despectus, or "scorn or contempt," became the English despite, later shortened to spite, or "a desire to hurt someone." Spite and revenge share similarities in motivation of retaliation and desire to inflict harm. Both can stem from anger, betrayal, or injustice. Society often applauds men seeking revenge as acts of heroism or justice, while women are stigmatized or labeled as vindictive. That being said, women need to do better. In the game of life, it's not about who holds the grudge, but who can let it go with style. #WomenSupportingWomen #WomenEmpowerment #GirlPower #Feminist #WomenInBusiness #WomenInPolitics #WomenLeaders #WomenEmpoweringWomen #WomenInspiringWomen #InternationalWomensDay2024 #GenderEquality #WomenRights #WomenHistory #EqualRights #WomenRise #WomenStrong #WomenUnited #EmpoweredWomen #WomenInSTEM #WomenHealth #abrasive #theempowermentalphabet

While this organisation has a Christian ethos, we cannot ignore the contributions made by those who identify as feminists. We pause to recognise those who have championed many causes and enabled females to access opportunities that we were once excluded from obtaining. We also recognise the feminist community that brought attention to the injustices in gender, while the Church ignored them and remained silent [and in many spaces, continue to do so]. We recognise Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for progressing the conversation and presenting relevant examples that capture the decay. Lastly, we recognise those who have now understood the God of justice as they became repositioned in Christ and have realised that the label no longer serves them but they identify with the discourses and are mature enough to engage accordingly. N.B. Throwback to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's eye-opening speech. #Justice #WomenInLeadership #Equality #Fairness #Unity #Power #Authority #Global #Impact https://lnkd.in/eT8ardkJ

#ICYMI This piece, published in YES! Media, shares wisdom from the summer of 2023, when network partners Root.Rise.Pollinate! began to gather feminist changemakers from across the globe into an embodied storytelling project to tell the story of the future. They invited them to play, and bring their hopes, love, and visions into the virtual circle in multiple sessions. Together, during one of the sessions, They wove a particular story, a fable across time zones, cultures and generations. Now, years later, RRP! finds it even more important to commit to collective practices that generate hope, love, care, and community. Their current work in progress, Reports From a Revolution of Being, uses embodied storytelling to help change makers be present in paradox, dream together, and apply those dreams daily in service of our collective evolution. Dive into the three core practices that are emerging as essential to this evolution: Courageous Presence, Radical Imagination, and Embodied Adaptation.https://https://lnkd.in/g_yucSht

Non-Partisian stances won't work, at least at this point in our collective evolution. Women must unite to support our only option... Not because of a political party, per se. But because we are (have always been) the best option to save our country from itself. Who and what we are becoming is happening on our watch and while, at the individual level, we may "pick a side", our organizations...collective might...must align to what is best. Ambiguity or fear of articulating our position is going to compromise our country's well being. 💡 Women are the majority 💡 Women are the influencers in our homes and communities 💡 Women give life...literally and figuratively. What has always been in our way are two things: 1. We are too divided along racial/ethnic lines. Lot's of reasons why that is but at this point, that too must stop, or at least pause. 2. We have erroneously believed we had the luxury of our clubs and organizations adopting a "nonpartisan" posture. That also no longer works. I am imploring women's organizations...professional, social, civic, Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, sororities, mother's clubs....WE MUST UNITE.

As we move into 2024, what is our focus? What's the Main Thing we are looking to do this week, this month this year? I suggest that we focus not just on connecting with persons but rekindling those meaningful connections in our lives and businesses. How are we connecting and uplifting others? Are we reaching back out to those we have been in contact with or lost touch with? Consider some simple acts of kindness by just calling and saying "hi" or asking how someone is doing that you haven't spoken with in a while. Every action creates ripples of positivity that help with meaningful connection. Continue to connect If you'd like a real connection with other Christian Women in Business - please let me know. We have developed the group Women in Faith and Enterprise (W.I.F.E.) where we support each other and share information as we continue our connection with one another -- and to help one another further our businesses together. #ConnectionsMatter #SpreadJoy #SpiritualGoals

🌸You are allowed to cry. 🌸You are allowed to dance. 🌸You are allowed to laugh. 🌸You are allowed to jump. 🌸You are allowed to scream. 🌸You are allowed to eat. 🌸You are allowed to love and be loved. 🌸You are allowed to be curvy. 🌸You are allowed to be skinny. 🌸You are allowed to drink coffee. 🌸You are allowed to pursue your dreams. 🌸You are allowed to speak up and be heard. 🌸You are allowed to be strong and independent. 🌸You are allowed to define your path. 🌸You are allowed to embrace your uniqueness. 🌸You are allowed to inspire others with your story. 🌸You are allowed to write your story. 🌸You are allowed to break barriers and shatter stereotypes. 🌸You are allowed to prioritize your happiness and well-being. 🌸You are allowed to be confident in who you are. 🌸You are allowed to empower and uplift other women.

We wanted to share this brilliant article for #InternationalWomensDay. As we celebrate Black and Brown women, Indigenous women, queer and trans women, women of the Global South, women resisting colonialism and occupation, the amazing women of our frontline coalition, and many more, we want to remind ourselves and everyone reading this that patriarchy is not and was not ever inevitable, or universal. It still isn't. "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." — Arundhati Roy Article excerpt: "Some of these communities have traditionally worshipped goddesses. Some subvert patriarchal notions of gender and sexuality, transcending the binary. Some don’t have monogamous marriage, or even marriage at all in the way it is commonly understood elsewhere. In many, individuals live out their days in their ancestral mothers’ homes, raising children communally. "They exist on the very same planet as the rest of us. Yet, suggest alternatives such as these to anyone in today’s big states and you would probably be laughed out the door. We have become so terrified of change that many of us can’t even imagine living like others whose world we share. A myth has taken root that #patriarchy is how things were originally, everywhere in the world. "Nothing could be less true."

THE FEMINIST PACIFIC conceptualizes the emergence of pan-Pacific feminism in the process of interacting historical forces and women’s activism in Hawai‘i from 1820 through the 1930s. Read more in this Q&A with author Rumi Yasutake. https://buff.ly/4aDcPaK #AAPI #AAPIHeritageMonth #APAHM #Hawaii #Feminisim