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SF Women Against Rape has your back. While they’re widely known for their amazing work supporting victims of rape and mitigating the problem through education, this women-of-color-led, primarily volunteer-based organization offers up advice that everyone can find useful. After 2016’s seemingly endless string of big knocks, SFWAR sent out a newsletter focused on self-care. They curated some helpful tips to hack…
Hank Pellissier writes about parenting, and his ideas about forgiveness in kids warmed our hearts. He talks about how teaching our tots forgiveness with their siblings will make them better people forever. These tips seem pretty applicable to us big kids too. Showing forgiveness doesn’t mean the behavior of the ‘wrongdoer’ is OK. It’s more about allowing a kid to go…
This is where you can pitch an unconventional idea and people will listen (or if you want to do the listening, check out Collins’ podcast.) Collins is the former Dean of The New School’s Parsons School of Design and he thinks the fashion industry is giving us a pretty flat impression of beauty – and leaders of the fashion and design…
Now they’re proud parents of a certified b-corp – Mafia Bags. “It started as a community-based brand where friends both donated sails and used our packs, and we learned along the way – but quickly realized we had something here,” Marcos Mafia told Transworld Business. Cut and sewn by local Californians, these beachy peeps now make bags and totes for…
Luckily her loved ones took her in, offered tons of support, and gave her the space to heal. That’s when things began to shift. She thought, “Fuck it, I’m going to stop being afraid of everything. I’m going to do things that challenge me and I’m going to follow the fear. I don’t know how much time I have on…
At 12, most of us were scrounging for change in the couch to buy candy at the corner store. Julietta Solano’s 12 and is the CEO of her own business, Clovercity Soapworks. When she was 10 she collected a bunch of those gift soaps that you get from hotels. Then she melted them down to make her own. At first,…
Do you know about the Pussyhat Project? Stay a minute and we’ll tell you. Your ears will probably want their own pink hat after they hear about it. January 21st is slated to be the Women’s March in Washington DC. The mission? To stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us. January is…
We remember actor and trans rights activist, Alexis Arquette, who died last year. Per Alexis’ request, the family members cheered upon his/her passing. Alexis inhabited many roles, both on and off the camera. Onstage, s/he stole the show in The Wedding Singer and Pulp Fiction, wowing us all with his/her gender-bending charisma. Off stage, you may know her/him as a…
As we savor our last moments with Prez Obama, watching him expand some minds in Silicon Valley was one for the books. Don’t get us wrong, Obama loves innovators and big thinkers – Silicon Valley will likely be his new home after he leaves the Oval Office. But those who claim the government is irrevocably wrecked and that the answer…
Laura Gómez is helping Silicon Valley overcome its biggest challenge: a lack of diversity in the workplace. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new,” says Laura. This mantra and fresh energy has led her to major successes in jobs at early-stage Youtube and Twitter and, now,…
