Like most millennials my age, I spend a lot of time on YouTube. YouTube, has in fact become my virtual university on life-skills and hacks. I have perfected the art of applying eyeliner by watching countless tutorials and tried making dozens of different versions of avocado toast. I have even tried to make homemade ice-cream. …
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South African author Bianca Marais isn’t afraid to confront racism—the visible, in-your-face kind that we all recognize and the deeper, institutionalized, systemic kind. The author of Hum If You Don’t Know The Words has spent her life questioning and grappling with conflicting emotions about privilege, growing up as a white girl under the Apartheid regime …
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On Tuesday morning millions of us woke up to social feeds full of black squares and captions —#BlackOutTuesday, #BlackLivesMatter. After days of anger, discussion, tears, confrontations and protests the tone of the discussion on social media turned to one of active silence. Is this the best path forward to tackle these issues, or do these …
Generation “Woke”— How Social Media is Discouraging us from Confronting Racism Within Read More »
If you’ve ever had a really great mentor, count yourself lucky. We all have mentors in some form all around us—our parents, teachers, friends, colleagues—many have something to teach us. Yet how many of them truly inspire us? All too often we confuse mentorship with advice, or someone more experienced than us, telling us what …
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Manhattan lawyer turned author and literary agent, Cecilia Lyra has carved out a dream all her own. Author of The Sunset Sisters which releases in June and lover of books about strong women, Cecilia is the embodiment of #girlpower. If you have not met Cecilia, you are about to fall. Hard. She talks to Women …
Like most of the world practicing social distancing, my nightly routine involves endlessly scrolling through various streaming platforms trying to find the one thing that I haven’t already watched. Last week was an easy sell when Netflix released Becoming on May 6th and like millions of people around the globe, and countless fans of the …
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