F A C T U A L S

Viola Davis photographed by MAR+VIN for Elle Brasil Magazine, 2022

Fierce. Brilliant. Talented. Unmatched. 🌹

Kellita Smith - 2000’s

Happy International Women's Day! This year's theme of 'Inspire Inclusion' reminds us that by encouraging women to be included in decision-making processes, we can work towards equity for all.

It's crucial to ensure that women from diverse cultures and backgrounds are not overlooked or left behind in our efforts to inspire women.

As individuals, we should ask challenging questions about how women from varied backgrounds are included in decision-making processes.

Organisations play a vital role in promoting inclusion by encouraging women from diverse backgrounds and cultures to join their senior management teams and boards. By doing so, they inspire the next generation of women leaders and ensure that decision-making processes are more representative and equitable.

On this International Women's Day, let's commit to promoting inclusion and diversity in leadership roles, inspiring women from all walks of life to be a part of the decision-making process, and working towards a more equitable future for all.

Violence attaches itself to the shadow of women. The danger touches them all, with no warning, no explanation, and it begets a societal conformity that thrives on survival. It becomes the basic instinct in which we rely on to make it through the sunrise and sunset.

I have become acutely aware of my misfortunes and their profound effect on me as a girl and now as a woman. I find myself walking through corridors of guilt, feeling ashamed because men decided to take away my choice, my consent, my voice. For years and years I’ve lived in a darkness of shame, wondering how dirty I am because they decided the rage of their fathers was my debt to pay.

I have told myself time and time again to not cry. As a soft, young girl my voice and my emotions were stifled and invalidated. Told to not feel. To not think. To not talk. To not move. To not scream. To not tell. It was a vicious overdose of silence and I was force-fed that mentality until I spit it out. I, now, live with the consequences of speaking out. I, now, live with the consequences of standing up for myself.

It’s days like today, when women should be celebrated, I’m reminded of the bouquets of disrespect, violence, animosity, and condemnation I’ve received as a vocal woman. People forget I have been fighting for myself for years and years. It is a battle I have not lost yet. People forget I had to survive in order to live. People forget there is still a little girl inside me, hiding in a corner, afraid of the light, filled with rage and fear and shame, and as a woman it is my job to find her, fix her hair, hug her, hold her hand, and tell her she will be everything that encompasses a woman. Passion. Fury. Hips. Thighs. Hair. Lips. Eyes. Hands. Ideas. Thoughts. Stories. Tears. Anger. Resilience. Grace. Quiet. Peace.

It is not lost on me that there are people who would strip me of everything solely because I was born. Today, I am reminded of a universal truth. There is no world without women. It is but the divine femininity of women that connect us to the Earth. Maybe she embodies a woman, a moon, a chalice, or a lush garden. Maybe embodying this energy looks like prayer, or sensual experiences, or feeling the fertile soil beneath your feet. Meditate on how you can celebrate this energy within you and especially as a divinity within other. Women are the light roaming this world. Amongst us walk Aphrodites, Isis’s, Venuses, Ancient goddesses encompassing something beyond reason. We are the moon that pulls the tides while being the sun that warms the earth.

Women are art. . . use our best colors when you paint our portrait.

Rising

We can't always rise to the occasion.

This isn’t a gender specific post, but I’ll use it to shout out to the women out there who are rising above many adversities. Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise” outlines a few scenarios that many of us maybe able to relate to and I’m sure there’s a lot more that we can add to her list. Last year this time I started chemotherapy and through it all I’ve worked and given thanks for reasons to rise to the…

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Melanated

A Christmas Carol can get annoying as a pop culture phenomenon--it seems so trite and overdone--but then you return to the book and realize that it really is that good.

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Every single man on that carpet got ate tf up and they know it sorry.

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