The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand
When Gloria Steinem got a million dollar book deal, was it too much? Does Oprah have too much money? Should Shonda Rhimes get paid less? Is it possible to be a wealthy feminist?
White women entrepreneurs can resist and dismantle white supremacy in their own businesses and marketing by auditing the images they use.
We must distinguish between trashing and critique, and we must steward this in the communities we participate in and the communities we lead.
All of us who are committed culture-makers need to connect the dots on injustice, and undo it in our lives, social media, and businesses.
From 2008-2013(ish), I was performing a character and a life as a client attraction strategy because that’s what I learned to do from the online marketers.
Here’s a non-exploitative, successful, feminist model for online summits (while staying in alignment with your social justice principles!)
There once was a radical commercial full of righteous body diversity that seemed to be a fist in the air for equity and inclusion. It wasn’t.
When entrepreneurs and marketers appropriate the language of activism, we devalue the sacrifice and bloody efforts of true activists and culture-changers.
The Patriarchal Promise means being in the possession of an abundant livelihood, influence, respect, a beautiful subservient woman and her sexuality (or several), and a family. In your sphere, whether it be public or private, you are the authority and you are owed not only respect but deference. (Indeed, when patriarchs express distress because they don’t…
Just because a woman who has what a lot of us want tells us what she does is empowering doesn’t make it so. Discerning between impact and intentions is key.