“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it. It’s richer than being a white male writer because I know more and I’ve experienced more.” — Toni Morrison, in a 2003 New Yorker profile.
Treat yourself
Treat yourself with the right to say “NO!” Say “NO!”to those skinny fashion jeans that give you struggles and don’t have pockets. Treat yourself with … read article
Inspiring Thursday: Naomi Wolf
#104 Thankful Thursday – Naomi Wolf
“Let´s be shameless. Be greedy. Pursue pleasure. Avoid pain. Wear and touch and drink what we feel like. Tolerate other women’s choices. Seek out the sex we want and fight fiercely against the sex we don’t want. Choose our own causes. And once we break through and change the rules so our sense of our own beauty cannot be shaken, sing that beauty and dress it up and flaunt it and revel in it: In a sensual politics, female is beautiful.” (The Beauty Myth, p.291)
The Gender Pay Gap & The Maternity Penalty
Gender inequality can be observed in a variety of contexts and is easily proved by the data. The salary gap between genders is still a … read article
Inspiring Thursday: Lissy Gröner
“There is no discrimination of same-sex couples in Belgium by law. And this is the signal we want to give to the people in Europe, to send the message out: it’s possible to honor the love of same-sex people by law”
Inspiring Thursday: Rupi Kaur
“what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn
that since day one
she’s already had everything she needs within herself
it’s the world that convinced her she did not”
― Rupi Kaur, the sun and her flowers
Inspiring Thursday: Hannah Arendt
“Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.”
― Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future
Climate Change: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?
As you are reading this on your phone, tablet, or computer, bear in mind that your device is wasting a significant amount of energy, energy … read article
Inspiring Thursday: 100th post!
In celebration of our 100th Inspiring Thursday post, we are highlighting some of the leaders taking action to combat sexual and gender-based violence across the globe. They range from activists, founders of NGOs, artists and more, but they are all contributing to bringing attention to and challenging violence against women. We have highlighted one individual from each continent, apart from Antarctica, and added a few “honorable mentions” to give you an inspiration overload!
