Have YOU found your WHY Yet? When we were little girls, we used to compete in putting ourselves down. "My picture is super ugly!" "No, mine is uglier!" We lived in a discourse where all things girly was shunned. To run like a girl was to run slowly. To cry like a girl was to show forbidden emotion. To play with the girls, if you were a boy, was to renounce your masculinity. We grew up in a world that interpreted our achievements as "just playing by … [Read more...]
The ‘WHY’ in Empowerment , Zetterman
September 8, 2011 by Team Celebration
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