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In Our Culture, Every Woman Is a Brand
In order to get access to rights and resources, every woman in our culture has to present herself as saleable, consumable object: we must brand ourselves.
Dear Women’s Empowerment Coaches: Is Your Teacher’s Teacher a Men’s Rights Activist?
Through their books, coaching institutes, classes, and workshops, men’s rights activists have trained MANY women’s life coaches and “empowerment” leaders.
TRUTH: “You Can’t Be Friends With Someone Who Wants Your Life”
I know that when I’ve wanted someone else’s life, it made me transactional, strategic, subservient, and sometimes envious. In other words: not a safe friendship or business bet.
And I know that when friends, lovers or colleagues wanted what I had, we always ended in conflict and destruction. Always.
We Are Each Other’s Necessary Tendernesses
The best thing we ever do is lean on each other and lift each other up because we are the culture makers, and together we rise.
What Looks Like Personal Choices are Often Framed Up for Us By Society
The way we use our time is predetermined and overdetermined by our society and gender roles, and society frames our productivity as “personal choices.”
We are Not Worker Bees. We are Humans…and CREATORS.
“In fact, many full-time artist reports that they have become more creatively rounded into full-time people.” – Julia Cameron. I struggle with this exactly!
Business Tip for Culture Makers #531: Ask for Way More Than You Need
When we don’t have institutions underwriting us, we have to underwrite each other. Feminist Marketing Tip #531: how feminist makers can flourish.
Business Tip for Culture Makers #54: The GDPR is Good for Consent Culture
I know there’s a lot of hullabaloo about GDPR and that it’s going to be bad for business, but I think it’s something culture-making entrepreneurs can champion.
Talking with My Hands and Trying to Be Good with Emelia
This photo makes me smile. Admittedly, talking with my hands is perhaps not the most effective way to communicate on the radio.
Dear Multi-Passionate Maker
Entrepreneur spaces will often tell people with multiple passions and focuses that we are flaky, but I think we are cultivating a rich body of work.
