Posts in Women's Advocacy/Empowerment from 2017

1. I am aware that suffering and the resulting struggle build whole nations, historical connections, unbreakable bonds. I imagine the …

People are complex. Everyone is as complex as you. You know those fun times where you have weird thoughts that …

We are all made of stories. Here, with an ocean and a continent between me and home, stories are what …

This past week we’ve discovered the importance of taking the time to learn about your worksite community. Our living and …

La Virgen y La Zorra. The obedient wife and the lustful mistress. The pious mother and the sex object. Día …

I have no paragraphs for you, only poetry.   Leaky roof. Creaky floorboards. Ants marching across the kitchen table. One …

Most conversations are filled with niceties – people waiting for you to shut up so that they can share whatever …

“You don’t know anything about your own people.” My mind is blank. What just happened? One hour before this exchange …

For the first half of our first week at the Women’s Legal Centre, we dealt with such abstract and sweeping …

1. When you were six years old your mother let you wear perfume for the first time. You were elated, …