Tag: women
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Keep women!
Seeing women’s worth is what makes yesterday so special. As we uplift women, we build nations.
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Keep these notes!
Her final notations of a life not simple, life not long, life not little, but a life full of thought, life full of heart, life full of air, is that life will still be short, it will still not be simple, and you will endure. A reminder: You can’t gatekeep global health from women who…
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Keep the many phases of motherhood!
All a mother needs for strength these days are in the eyes of those she birthed. For her, nothing remains the same and opening up is like Spring season, a moment when words start to speak on their own whether silently or loud. For her, the sun never goes down. The moon is like a…
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Keep this women’s day!
You do not have to be happy, you do not have to be international or woman, to know the amazon within you, to let the journey from your head to your heart, know why today is worth celebrating. Tell me your story about being a woman and I’ll tell you mine plus the strength that…
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Keep grants for self-recovery!
bell hooks in Sisters of the yam, talked about the need for black women to engage in self-recovery. She was writing from the space of the continued devaluation of black womanhood, the extreme difficulties that make it hard for us to even develop a positive outlook of ourselves. Not only are we pitted against each…
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Keep those who see the light and stars within!
Where do you begin a poem about women in light. At the same time how do you begin with those unafraid of the wind. Those that understand the essence of rain. Some women will make you grieve, others will help you release, yet some will remind you of how to reach the happiness within. Some…
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Keep the memories of two women this Easter Sunday!
Women will be there again and again. Every time the story is told. They were there that Sunday morning when death rose like flames. There was a tomb, they looked at it. They saw the earth quake. And a stone rolled away. Pictures form and remain in my head. Of two women who looked on.…
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Keep imagining them oooh….
Imagine being among creatures of vanity. Imagine wondering what do they even know. Imagine their blindness to a single blazing star, even though they belong to a pleading sky. Now imagine how they must the feel, the exhilaration of a cup that overflows, of moments they see reaching high to the bare cliff edge. For…
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Keep turning on your own, for your own!
More than once we take memories, those hard and true, those painful and fruitful, we take them all and use them to blossom like tall Iroko trees. We are woman. Ordinary, but woman. We are all of life, surrounded by the love for life. We are pictures, perfect, broken, but pictures capturing memories, of times…
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Keep all the ways you live!
That she lived till she was 90 years old isn’t the issue. It’s that she lived. She lived as the longest serving. She lived leading. She lived courageously. She lived vividly. Our lives are long. Our lives are short. Who we are will spread and spread and life maybe vivid and full, so long as…
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Keep Black Women!
The day begins with love. To women everywhere, especially those black and hive. Those that smile when we arrive. Those who switch tongues on overdrive. Those who blow kisses that jive. Those whose laughter we archive. Those who stay unmasked and alive. Those yearning for all the ways we thrive. Those who celebrate all the…
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Keep peace this women’s history month.
It’s women’s history month and let’s just say I’m exhausted. Women, some, can be our own enemies. Women, some, can derail anyone and anything they think they have power over. The past two days at work has been disheartening and to think that I start this month wondering why some women are our own worst…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 