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DECEMBER 2024 Wellness Resources
All the wisdom that we need exists within us. But in a world full of distractions, we have to be intentional about quieting the noise in order to hear our intuition clearly. Between social media, the 24 hour news cycle, and the general expansion of digital technology, there are countless forces pulling us away from quiet moments of solitude. The good news, though, is that there are also countless ways to cultivate these moments to connect with ourselves and tap into our inner worlds.
Post Event Reflection: Disturbing the Peace - Annihilating Comfort to Advocate for Yourself with Ché Abram
In our final event of the year, board member Ché Abram guided us through a brief presentation and discussion around getting comfortable with discomfort so that we can both advocate for ourselves and improve the world for others.
Perspectives: Fern Stroud
When we circled back a year after we wrote our stories, everyone seemed elevated, almost freed. They no longer had to hold onto whatever it was that was holding them down professionally. They're freed. And that freedom is evident, and now it's impacting the lives of everyone they come into contact with. - Fern Stroud
NOVEMBER 2024 Wellness Resources
The modern world is full of extremes. As we witness and experience drastic political, social, and environmental crises, we continue to be surrounded by beautiful examples of love, resistance, and hope.
Perspectives: Precious J. Stroud
“BlackFemaleProject exists to add more stories of truth to the entire scope of stories. If we tell our truth, then what someone else says as their belief of us no longer has power. We're adding more positive, truer stories into the world.” - Precious Stroud
Learning from Educators, Aligning our Offerings: An update from Teacher Truth Director, Dr. E’rika Chambers
By holding space for Black educators to speak their truths–unmasked and vulnerable–we support their healing, well-being, and, consequently, their positive impact as educators. Black educators deserve healing, and their students deserve healed educators.
Member Spotlight: Araceli Cruz-Marks
I believe in BlackFemaleProject because I have a Black daughter, and Black women are held to a completely different standard as soon as they walk into the room.
Member Spotlight: Kamika Dunlap
I have more than 20 years of experience as a leader specializing in strategic communications, storytelling, marketing, government affairs, public policy, and journalism.
Member Spotlight: Faye Carol
Because there aren’t a hell of a lot of people in organizations who are really practicing that and holding up Black women and actually supporting us in the many professions that we are in. That is a lot of the reason why we can exist – because of organizations like BlackFemaleProject.
Member Spotlight: Dr. Barbara Stroud
Black women, in addition to all other women of color, we need spaces where we see other Black women thriving because that is so rare to see. We tend to internalize the white supremacy narrative that we are less than or we can’t succeed. And even when we do succeed, we are told that we are an anomaly.
Member Spotlight: Robin McBride
One of the most important things we can do as business women, no matter what stage we are at in our business, is to uplift each other and become a resource for each other.
Member Spotlight: Audrey Cormier
I believe in the mission because of the part that talks about your ability to self-define success. Black women in corporate America have achieved some successes, but clearly there are many more things companies can do to create opportunities for Black women and women of color.
OCTOBER 2024 Wellness Resources
In our world, Black women are a total standard of excellence. The style, the grace, the melanin, the beauty! But the wider world we live in doesn’t always see it the same way. External projections and false narratives often try to position Black women in a less favorable light rather than acknowledging and honoring our natural state of glory.
Post Event Reflection: Soulful Breakfast Conversation and Writer's Workshop with Dr. Gale Jackson
As a poet, writer, storyteller, cultural historian, interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator, Gale is part of longstanding African diaspora griot traditions. She works in language and art making; story and journey; history and memory; performance, imagination; and community cultivation and social transformation.
RADICAL IMAGINATION
“Every time you do something, you are creating a space that the rest of us can pick up that energy and go with that as well.” Whether or not you attended the event, we hope these reflections encourage you to prioritize your own rest and healing; recover your power; and be a model of commitment to radical imagination.”
TEACHER TRUTH PERSPECTIVES | REFLECTION
SEPTEMBER 2024 Wellness Resources
One of the core reasons that Precious Stroud started BlackFemaleProject was to offer guidance and insights for younger Black women, in hopes that they’ll be better prepared to navigate their professional journeys. While we all have to learn our own preferences and limitations through experience, many of us would have benefited from more transparent information about what patterns we might encounter.
Member Spotlight: Valerie Goode
I appreciate that there are tools to help me reflect on my own and ask myself questions that I wouldn't have asked otherwise. Those tools became important for my professional and personal evolution.
Member Spotlight: Dr. Linda stewart
It’s nice to be connected with other Black women who are in business and who are achieving their goals and their dreams and to be able to support each other without any judgment.
AUGUST 2024 Wellness Resources
We all have varied levels of comfort speaking up. For some of us, it requires a serious pep talk to psych ourselves up to be comfortable sharing what’s really on our minds. For others, it’s second nature and often the easier alternative to keeping our thoughts to ourselves. Many of us likely fall somewhere between these two extremes, and no matter what our general comfort level is, different contexts and situations can impact how prone we are to speak up in any given moment.