While motherhood can be complicated, mothers can be everything. Our team at Sisterhood Agenda wants to wish everyone, especially our mothers, Happy Mother’s Day.
Knowing that this designated day can trigger complicated emotions for some, we want to highlight the aspects of being a mother that we need to embrace right now to make our world a better place.
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Why would any woman want to pay for skin bleaching to lighten her skin? It is a similar mindset that would motivate someone to have surgery to make changes to their face (nose job, facial implants, lip plumping) and body (breast augmentation, liposuction, butt injections). Fake hair, fake nails, fake body,
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When it comes to honoring Mother Nature and protecting the Earth, every day is Earth Day. Small things make a difference and the more we do, the better our world can be. You make the difference.
Excerpts from Girls Guide: How to Be Green by Angela D.
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Audre Lorde is a woman with power. Author, poet, activist, sister friend, and much more, I am sure that she was one of the phenomenal women that Maya Angelou references in her famous poem of the same name. If you like inspired Indigenous activism and feminism, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
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Girls on St. John are empowered with health and wellness! With its SHE program, Sisterhood Agenda promotes sisterhood among girls on St. John by supporting them in making healthy choices. Fun, learning, movement and sisterhood created an awesome day for all!
Sisterhood Agenda held a SHE: Sisters, Healthy &
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Public groping happens often and is a largely unreported sexual crime against women. You can help stop unwanted sexual attention such as wolf whistling, sexual comments, staring, exposure, unwanted touching or feeling unsafe in public by reporting these activities to the appropriate authorities. Our silence allows public groping and other types of bad behavior to continue.
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Our celebrity sisterhood is uniting, joining hands in solidarity for gender quality for women and girls. The fight for global women’s empowerment, support, and gender equality just got a load of new ammunition and it’s serious!
Several high-profile entertainers such as including Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rhimes, Ashley Judd,
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When sexual assault survivors speak out, we should all listen.
Huffington Post had a great slideshow highlighting the trauma suffered by sexual assault survivors speaking out the best way that they can. Like Kesha, the pop star whose claims of abuse, including rape, were not taken into serious consideration by the courts,
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International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year’s International Women’s Day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
“International agencies across the globe have come together for the last 15 years to celebrate women on this special day.”
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Self-definition is empowering. When I was in my third year at Princeton University, I wrote a independent research titled, “Black Women & Self-Definition.” When I started Sisterhood Agenda at age 23, one of the first things that I did was integrate the concept of self-definition into our A Journey Toward Womanhood curriculum for teenage girls.
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