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If you aren’t following comedian @joyellenicole, we probably can’t be friends anymore... Mindfulness should be an essential part of our daily routine. Do you agree? “Many people do have negative opinions about trans people, but I think it comes from not knowing trans people.” It has been described as “a book of planetary urgency; a playbook for industries, universities, and countries” and there is something we could all take away from Danish Design Expert @dittelysgaardvind’s new book ‘Danish Design Heritage and Global Sustainability’, which highlights her work as the founder of The Circular Way – a unique and innovative approach to the way materials are sourced and used for design purposes so that it does not continue to harm the environment. 🔔TW: mention of pregnancy loss and stillbirth. Please take care… According to a 2020 report by the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center, personal finance knowledge is generally lower among underrepresented minority women than among their white counterparts. For instance, on average, African American and Hispanic women answered 38% of financial literacy questions correctly, while white women answered 54% correctly. “We think [this film] raises questions about whose art is valued and why.” What if you could turn your dream into a dream job? Want to know what that looks like in reality? Look no further than the example of @courtneylupilin, who wrote a really entertaining guest post for us on the blog today! For Mother’s Day this past weekend, we asked New York Times bestselling author and GTHQ contributor @triciacrisafulli to share her perspective on what it means to “mother” (verb), and the piece she contributed was rich with nuance and complexity. To celebrate Mother’s Day this year, we featured a very special guest post from award-winning Filipinx writer, scholar, multidisciplinary performer and mental health advocate @jensorianowrites. She is the author of Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing and co-editor of Closer to Liberation: A Pina/xy Activist Anthology. In her article, she opens up about her personal experience struggling with both physical and mental health challenges in the lead up to giving birth to her child. (Un)Happy Mother’s Day?! In 1978 at age 21, photographer @lisamccord began capturing her grandparents’ cotton farm located in the South of rural Arkansas, 50 miles north of Memphis, and along the Mississippi River. The passing of time has a way of adding context and layers of meaning to any story, and Lisa’s expansive and nuanced project and book, ‘Rotan Switch’, (out May 2024) reflects the dedication of over 40 years of observation and documentation of her rural southern family farm and community. 
"I want Asian women to be seen as powerful, strong and brave because we are. It’s my mission to create stronger representation of Asian women so that we can build more leaders and show our current and future generations what is possible for themselves."

-Sheena Yap Chan

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