Women's Empowherment- A woman's place is in the revolution

It's always important to ensure that women support each other. We all have our Queendom and we all have moments when we will like everything is falling apart and we could use a little support from all our fellow Queens to build our lives back up again or sometimes we just need the right support to grow! Following our some of my personal friends that I would love to share with you. You will also get to learn a little more about me and what I do. 1. Lily Kramlich-Taylor Lily is the Co-Founder of Dallasites101 they are experts in the social media marketing field and now exactly what to post and how to build up your followers and client base. I highly recommend her for anyone starting or running businesses in the fashion industry or sales area. You can reach her at contact@dallasites101.com 2. Meagan Martin Powers Meagan Martin Powers is an experienced litigator representing businesses and individuals in commercial litigation and bankruptcy matters involving investment fraud, ...

So this one is going to be one hell of a rant so sorry in advance! Scrolling through Facebook is a lot of fun until FB decides "I have a post I KNOW you'll love".... Dear FB you don't get me at ALL!! In case it isn't already EXTREMELY obvious, I am a strong willed feminist that believes I deserve more than a some guy who kind of sort of cares about me and only when I match his desires EXACTLY. So when I come across articles like "How to attract men" or "How to get your crush to notice you" my blood boils to explosive levels. First off, why are women writing these trash articles to began with? I'm sorry are you ENCOURAGING men to to undermine women?! Please princesses, step aside and let the Queens do their job. So in light of my pure hatred of this ridiculous culture of women having to chase men for attention, I decided to make my own blog about "How to be the realest You, you can be!" But first let me clarify that the reason...

So a conversation that comes up a lot during Halloween season is the concept of "sexy" costumes for women. Men have regular costumes and everything is simply made sexy for women. It is infuriating to those who want to actually be scary or those who want a little less showing. Especially in a season where there are plenty of drunk pervs roaming the streets, not everyone feels safe wearing such costumes. So in spirit of one my favorite holidays, lets talk what "sexy" looks like for an empowered woman. 1. Women's iconic WW2 Symbol of Strength Of course what better way to represent the strength and courage of women then to be the Iconic image itself? During a time when women pretended to be men to fight for their country and at the same time hold up the fort and keep the economy going by running all the companies and working in the industries that were considered "jobs for men", the iconic simple of women and their ability to overcome all obstacles i...

So for those that don't know, I am an Ismaili Muslim and like the Christian concept of Sunday school, we have Religious education on Saturdays. Now the teachers are expected to go through training to ensure that we teach the students facts and accurate information rather then opinions or perspectives. However, when I went into this training I realized that there was a fault in the training itself. Within teaching the facts, we somehow twisted the perspective based on emotional bias. When I was pitted against the trainer and the other teachers trying to explain my perspective, I felt something inside of me shift. The perspective you teach the students, regardless of the intent, does impact their view and emotional outlook on life because your emotional outlook on life will end up showing. Now why am I mentioning this on my blog today and what does it have to do with anything? Well as women we end up separating "our" problems with "their" problems based on race...

We all know the girl code. Regardless if it was taught to us or we simply learned it as we grew up and heard "Don't you know the girl code?"or "It's part of the girl code". An internationally known code that was never written in stone and never truly verbalized but universally followed. And the girls that broke the girl code? Shunned and isolated. A code created to protect us from getting hurt or betrayed. One based on the ethics of the young girls that created it and followed it. Now where there was a "girl code" we also knew of the super secret "bro code" one with the same international context with no true written law to follow. However, the "bro code" unlike the "girl code", has damaged the lives of the opposite sex for generations. Rules like "lie for your bro", "keep secrets no matter what they are", etc. From young girls having sexual harassment covered up and being left to suffer while th...

There are so many Disney movie reviews and theories out there that we all think we know what our favorite stories are truly about. But looking at it in a Empowhering perspective, may teach us lessons for our daily lives and how to over come struggles we face. So starts are DISNEY PRINCESSES IN THE LIGHT OF QUEENS series. Lets start off with one of the first ever Disney Princess movies- Snow White. Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs depicts a young child born into royalty whose skin is "as white as snow". Being the ideal image of beauty at the time, and the perfect personality; caring, nurturing, talented in home economics, etc.; Snow White is depicted as the main character (although her own role in the movie is limited) The Evil Queen is jealous of her beauty (A.K.A. Disney step mom syndrome) and decides to hire a hunter to kill her. The hunter leads Snow white into the forest and finds himself unable to kill this perfect image of a women and decides to kill an animal to take th...

For those of you who don't know, I am currently working with Queens and Future Queens ( a non-profit organization determined to assist young girls in becoming future leaders through mentor ship programs consisting of female CEOs, CFOs, etc. of big companies as well as inspirational speakers, artist, etc.) to create an event called Champions for Change Leadership Awards 2020. (you can see more about it on the following link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2019-champions-for-change-leadership-awards-dinner-cfcla-2019cfcla-tickets-59985159226?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete ). Now one of the things I needed to do was find empowering music for women to feature at the event and I found one song that really made me think. The song is "Strip" by Little Mix. I have heard quite a few empowering songs and I listen to them quite often, but for some reason this one really got me thinking. Society places so much value on image that we as women forget that we're beautiful and w...

A few weeks ago I was sitting with a couple of friends and discussing our culture's expectation of women needing to be married by 23 and we ended up going into a discussion of how guys our age are just not worth considering for marriage. Now I could go on a rampage on everything that is wrong with men (which I probably will sneak in throughout this blog to to all the male readers- get out your notebook and pen and pay attention please) but the more important factor here is the lack of equality and the gender bias that appears here. If it wasn't already clear by the fact that I have a feminist blog, I am a feminist and I believe in women having the right to feel empowHERed and inspired. So when someone tries to convince me that I should live a certain way or do things simply because I'm a women and  that's my "job" I do put them in their place. So let's bring this concept to the table to take this conversation further. 1. Marriage  The concept that w...

Now initially I wasn't going to make this its own topic but something happened on the night of June 30th 2019 that changed my mind. Now to understand this story, you need to know something about me. You see, I had been engaged for two years and ended up having it broken off when I finally came clean to my dad and told him I wasn't happy and he encouraged me to do what I felt I needed to. To be honest it was more my fiance's decision them mine towards the end as I simply tried to tell him my concerns and fears so we could try to fix it (yes, I was that person). Now the call had ended with him saying he didn't care and that we could end things if I wanted. After two years of consistently having my feelings brushed off, being treated like I wasn't worth much, watching him flinch every time he even hugged me (which was rare on its own), having him discourage me from being the best version of myself and strive to grow, and so much more, I decided that this time I woul...

I currently started my MBA and for the first time, I realized that since I was a kid, so many of the research articles I read, either discount the existence of women in the subject by using gender specific languages such as "him, he, himself, his, etc.", or subjectivity women to stereotypical roles such as teachers or nurses. In a time where women are once again forced to fight for their rights and equality, research material should be more considerate and revise their work to be more appropriate. So to all the people out there writing research papers for classes, blogs, news articles, magazine articles, etc. here are a few ways you can make your work more mindful of gender. 1. Either use general or gender inclusive language.  For general language, you can use terms like "they, them, themselves, etc." to avoid excluding specific groups of people. Or you could use gender inclusive language like "he/she , himself/ herself, etc." use both or neither but ...

My name is Bazal Morani and I am a Muslim Female born and raised in the United States. I have been raised to believe our country represents freedom and equality and I traveled the world with those ideals representing our country with statements of women's rights and freedom of speech. As I got older however, I learned that a lot of what I understood to be the ideals of our country, were just that, ideologies. In practice we have failed to honor our countries codes and have failed our people. We are a nation of many colors, of many beliefs, of many cultures, of many religions, we are the nation that was built to empower other nations and we, as the people, have failed. I am an American in heart and soul and I believe in our country. It is time we bring those ideologies to reality- it is time for another revolution. In my blog I want to focus on women empowerment because no one will stand up for us until we stand up for ourselves and it is time we fight. Women need to stop stand...