People often assume the quiet person in a room is incomplete. As if silence is some kind of broken feature that needs an update. I’ve lost count of how many times someone felt the need to nudge me with that classic feedback: “Try speaking up a bit more.” It always lands like they’re telling me
Discover the power of words that challenge the confines of patriarchy! From Maya Angelou’s defiant declarations to Audre Lorde’s resilient affirmations, these 25 phrases from poetry and feminist thought resonate with the call for equality, freedom, and self-empowerment. Dive into this collection and be inspired to challenge the status quo!
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Practical strategies for leading diverse minds — from someone who’s been in the messy middle. “Your team is not a machine to be optimized. It’s an ecosystem to be understood.” The Moment I Realized Like-Mindedness Was Overrated Let me start with a confession: I used to believe the best teams were made of like-minded people.
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Dear CC, It’s Not You, It’s Me. Actually… It Is You. – A Satirical Love Letter to Poor Email Etiquette Ah, email — the corporate confessional, battleground, and cry-for-help medium of our times. A marvel of modern communication, where tone is imagined, urgency is always questionable, and passive-aggressiveness flourishes like a well-watered office plant. But
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The engine hums softly as I pull out of the driveway, the house shrinking in the rearview mirror. Another day begins, a familiar rhythm: home to car, car to office, office back to car, and car to home. My mind is already racing—emails to answer, deadlines to meet, the mental checklist that never quiets. I’m
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By Kimmy.S | Arts & Culture Critic Art history is littered with flashes in the pan—talents who captured the zeitgeist for a moment and then faded into the ether. But a rare few transcend their time. Their brushstrokes, chisels, or visions etch themselves permanently into culture. We return to them again and again, not out
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We are the daughters dangling between two worlds—neither here nor there. Suspended like forgotten wind chimes in a locked attic, once adored for our laughter but now silenced by dust and tradition. We exist on the edge of nostalgia and rejection, where our childhood echoes with “nani ke ghar ki kachori” and ends with closed
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Choosing cooking oil is a bit like picking the right plus-one for a dinner party—you want someone who blends in, brings value, and doesn’t ruin the evening. If you’re still reaching for any “refined oil” without thinking twice, it’s time we had a little kitchen intervention. In this post, I’m breaking down the basics of
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Butter and margarine are kitchen staples, slathered on toast, melted into sauces, or baked into flaky pastries. But these spreads are more than just cooking fats—they’re woven into the culinary and cultural fabric of societies worldwide. From the grassy fields of Ireland to the laboratories where margarine was born, their stories are rich, their uses
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“Dust to Dust” carries a rich, symbolic weight that can be used in a variety of contexts within stories, poems, and other forms of writing. The phrase is steeped in notions of life’s impermanence, the inevitability of death, and the cyclical nature of existence. Here are a few ways this phrase might be explored in
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