#SistoryLessons & Society

Diversifying Spaces Should Not Be the Labor of BIPOC People

OR: How Do We De-Center Default Whiteness in Order to Boost Mindset Shifts and Create Belonging and Sustainable Inclusion? This has got to be a team effort Ongoing societal progress requires that considerable time and effort continually...

Year Four: Beyond Flowers

The last Journey-Journal I produced was sub-titled “Come Get Your Flowers,” and now, as the latest version, the Brave Sis Perpetual Journal, is about to go into production for a...

A Modest Proposal for how to do "DEI" right

Sensitivity training can be a helpful tool for beginning to confront and unpack the history and legacy of racism, colonialism, slavery, and othering that is the foundational shame and pain...

The XYZ of DEI: A Platform-in-Process

We always talk about the “ABCs” of this and that, but what about the advanced practice? With so much of the DEI space being littered with performative, check-the-box maneuvers, I...

On Colorism, Or: I Simply Wanted to Refresh Our Website

An encounter with colorism in building our website leads to a meditation on colorism. "women's movement" feminism women sisterhood BIPOC anti-racist antiracism journaling inclusion DEI wellness "trust your inner voice" allyship BLM...

Celebrating Rosa Parks, Toni Morrison and other Brave Foremothers

Brave Sis #SistoryLesson pays tribute to five foremothers: civil rights icon Rosa Parks, ballerina Mary de Haven Hinkson, entertainer Pearl Bailey, opera singer Marian Anderson, and the peerless Toni Morrison!