Weaving Community: Meet the Shetroit Blog Team!
Meet the Shetroit Blog Team! Detroit is in the spotlight with many eyes focused on it, wondering what it’s like to live, work and play in this richly complicated, intriguing and culturally diverse soup...
View ArticleSeven Fabulous Detroit Latinas You Want on Your Side
You know those end-of-the-year top five/six/ten lists… the top ten diets for 2012, five places to travel where no one will find you, and so on? Yes, we all do. I have to admit, I love them. I always...
View ArticleWhat Women & Crips Have in Common
Nearly 5 years ago, Detroit Police Officer Tisha Prater was forced to go on unpaid leave when she revealed to her team that she was pregnant. Unlike wounded members of the Detroit Police Department,...
View ArticleHere’s How a Woman Talks Damn Straight
I have read with riveting interest the rave reviews for Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech delivered Tuesday night in Charlotte, North Carolina. I caught a buffered version of her...
View ArticleIn Another Lifetime – A Love Letter to Five Great Detroit Women
I have become fascinated with the women in the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame and especially the women who have a Detroit connection either through birth, living in the city or working in the city....
View ArticleHow to Transform the World Through the Leadership of Women
“I’VE GOT YOUR BACK, BECCA,” one of our Shetroit sisters soothingly whispered in my ear at the wrap-up of a recent gathering of Shetroiters. That’s our affectionate nickname for the Detroit women...
View ArticleWearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution
I am Detroit. My heart beats “Papa Was a Rollingstone”. I feel lost–displaced. Everyone tries to tell me what my story is. And I can’t get an accurate reflection of myself. Time Magazine tells me that...
View ArticleOn Becoming Unfukwitable
A black girl’s first act of sorcery is to make herself disappear. I understood this when my father asked me to sit on his lap. He was in a wonderful mood that night. His baritone, a whiskey warmed song...
View ArticleI Have Nowhere Else To Report This
Monday, August 3, 2015: I’m sitting on a plane on my way to DC for an organization wide event. My stomach is knotted as I think about seeing a co-worker who I have filed a sexual harassment claim...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to...
This one is heavy. Let me set the table in love and understanding and start by saying that by the time you are done reading this you will either appreciate the letter or not. I am okay with that, as...
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