The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand
Through their books, coaching institutes, classes, and workshops, men’s rights activists have trained MANY women’s life coaches and “empowerment” leaders.
This photo makes me smile. Admittedly, talking with my hands is perhaps not the most effective way to communicate on the radio.
Graffiti awesomeness by Banksy. Looks like we are all circling around the same phenomenon, trying to figure it out…and maybe change it.
“Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked female” – Erin McKean. A note on checking our sources, and citations as culture making moves.
I dislike “meet them where they’re at” marketing advice. It feels like contempt for the audience. Let’s assume our customers and readers are smart and brave
In conventional online marketing, we’re taught to “manufacture” authority with a makeover story. Why? So that people will obey our authority and buy.
Our challenge is to develop that well of images while avoiding conventional, performative beauty-signalling that props up existing oppressive narratives.
As soon as I get that “oh my god, I recognize myself in this” feeling, I get to work unlearning that previously-invisible, culturally conditioned habit.
When I was first starting out online, I witnessed an influential woman using her platform to boost the signals of others and invest in her community.
Perfectionism a form of internalized violence and it keeps us small. Press go before your post or copy is perfect because it will never be perfect.