Guest blog post by Clara Freeman.
“Don’t let the sun go down on your dreams, unless you choose to be a star.”
An editor sent this in a return envelope, with a rejected contest submission piece I’d entered when I was a newbie freelance writer.
By Nesima Aberra journalism student.
When I pondered wearing the hijab the summer before my freshman year of college, I thought a lot about what it meant for me to be an American Muslim.
I felt I would be almost betraying everyone I knew with this new addition to my persona, and I didn’t know how people would react.
Guest blog post: Soraya Chemaly is a feminist starist and media critic. She is also an insightful and thought-provoking blogger whom I greatly respect and admire. I highly recommend following her on Twitter.
This excellent piece was originally published on The Huffington Post.
Dear Girls,
Guest blog post by author & motorcycle aficionado Liz Jansen.
Motorcycles and our relationship with them have much to teach us, whether we ride or not.
The partnership of rider and machine when they join together in perfect harmony is like observing a beautiful dance that gives birth to power, strength, balance and positive change.
Guest blog post by Brenda Slavin.
Why do we hold ourselves hostage to rules that don’t really even exist? Day after day we play out conforming to rules that we ourselves have created which only hold us back.
Some of these “rules” have been instilled into us. Not only by our upbringing and influences, also by our society and the media. We follow them habitually never giving much thought to if they make sense to what is right for us as individuals.