From the beginning, it’s been part of our SheLoves DNA to hold the door open wide to our sisters around the world. Today we’re launching a monthly column called “Good News for Girls.” We want to celebrate good news stories about our global sisterhood! And when we see ways that we can embody Good News to our sisters, we want to [...]
“Everything in me screams, ‘Let the girls live!’’ I know that’s what Shiphra and Puah, advocates of beautiful childbirth, would do.” There’s an old Exodus story about some mighty women who defied a king and discovered the power in their hands. Today I honor their memory and sing their praises with a simple retelling. I [...]
“But the word ‘legacy’ reminds me that my actions, my behavior, my voice will help shape the world in which the next generation of girls will live.” By Stephanie Motz Skinner | Twitter: @stephmotz Conversations at our dining table, like my scrambled eggs, are rarely light and fluffy. It seems so appropriate to me that [...]
By J.R. Goudeau | Twitter: @jrgoudeau | Hilltribers.org “Stitch by tiny stitch, we’re creating something lovely out of injustice. ” Koe rose early in the morning to run through the jungle with her less-than-one-day-old baby. She had gone into labor while she escaped the Burmese junta invading her village. Her older children went ahead with other relatives. Her [...]
On skin lightening creams, va-jay-jays and my future babies. I grew up in pre-exotic Dubai. It was the land of milk and hummus. We had bashful camels, marmalade sunsets and silky sand dunes. This was back when Dubai didn’t have seven-star hotels, luxury malls or artificial islands shaped like palm trees. Dubai was, however, insanely hot. My [...]
