Category Archives: women

Mar8

a powerful woman on woman’s day and every day.

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What started as a vision to heal and rebuild

has become one of Detroit’s most inspiring grassroots projects.

 The Avalon Village, founded by Shamayim “Mama Shu” Harris, is transforming *Highland Park into a safe, sustainable, and thriving neighborhood. After losing her young son, Jakobi RA, to a hit-and-run in 2007, Mama Shu turned her pain into purpose, turning blight into beauty and creating opportunities for the community. In 2021, Mamu Shu lost another son to violence.

Now spanning 45 lots across three blocks, Avalon Village features:

The Homework House – A solar-powered after-school center

The Healing House – A space for holistic wellness

The Goddess Marketplace – Supporting women entrepreneurs

A community farm with fresh produce & eggs

A Basketball Court, honoring her late sons

And she’s not stopping – with plans for affordable housing, a healthy restaurant, and workshops to help others revitalize their communities.

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‘there is nothing stronger than a  broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’

-Hannah Gadsby

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*Highland Park is in the U.S. state of Michigan. An enclave of Detroit, Highland Park is located roughly 6 miles north of Downtown Detroit, and is surrounded by Detroit on most sides.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/43aKF7b

source credit: detroitisit

Jan24

blue girls in motion.

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so great to take my daughter and granddaughter to a women’s basketball game

to see firsthand that all things are possible 

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‘a girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.’ – billie jean king

‘courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts.

that’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.’

– bethany hamilton, surfer 

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january 2025 – at the university of michigan, chrysler arena

let’s go blue!

Apr19

amazons.

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Archaeologists have discovered evidence that some Greek myths might be more than just stories. Per The Observer, researchers excavated graves in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, and found “battle-scarred female archers” buried with weapons, including arrowheads, a dagger, and a mace.
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This information, combined with previous findings, suggests that the women may have been Amazons who lived 4,000 years ago. The Amazons were a group of skilled female warriors and hunters who often came head-to-head with the Greeks, according to epic poems like the Iliad and Argonautica.
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But as historian Bettany Hughes told The Observer, they were likely real people who lived beyond literature. “It shows that there’s truth behind the myths and legends of ancient Greece,” she said of the archaeological findings. She explores the discovery further in a new documentary series, Bettany Hughes’ Treasures of the World, which recently premiered on the U.K.’s Channel 4.

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“Strength is not measured by physical prowess,

but by the indomitable spirit of a warrior woman.”

– suzanne collins, (author of the hunger games)

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Source credits: image: dea/g.dagliorti/de agostini,  text -the observer

Jul2

kbj.

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Congratulations and welcome Ketanji Brown Jackson

Newest Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

We’ve been waiting for your arrival for a very long time.

 

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“when sleeping women wake, mountains will move.”

-chinese proverb

 

 

 

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photo credit: abc news

May4

how?

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“how does this happen? gradually, then suddenly.”

– ernest hemingway

 

 

 

 

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art credit: red diamond

Aug12

veep.

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kamala harris, in the beginning

 

“A patriot is not someone who condones the conduct of our country whatever it does.

It is someone who fights every day for the ideals of the country, whatever it takes.”

– Kamala Harris – The Truths We Hold: An American Journey/2019

 

 

 

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photo credit: la times, courtesy of kamala harris

Feb13

universe.

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On an eight-day flight aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992, AAAS member Mae Carol Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in space. Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Mae C. Jemison, born on this day in 1956, has a few firsts to her name: She was the first woman of color in space, as well as the only real astronaut to have served on the U.S.S. Enterprise, where she portrayed a lieutenant on an episode of Star Trek: TNG.

“we inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.”

-desmond tutu