|
3/30/2022 Celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility: Chloe AyoDeji Filani - My mother knew I’d be a daughter? Today, and always, we recognise and celebrate our transgender, nonbinary, and gender-non conforming community. International Transgender Day of Visibility was created in 2009 by transgender activist Rachel Crandall, and serves as a moment to reflect on the issues faced by transgender people today. We wanted to take the opportunity to highlight a prominent artist and reached out to the phenomenal poet, Chloe AyoDeji Filani, to write a piece for the day.
 This blog has been selected from the My Moon Landing Weekend training session, Be the Resilience, and is part of a five-issue blog series sharing a small snippet of learnings from different training sessions. Be the Resilience featured talks from people who created their business to invest in others, developing incredible mentorship relationships, experiences and programmes. This session was led by Stephanie Itimi, a digital entrepreneur and PhD student exploring her interests in internet education and security.
 This blog has been selected from the My Moon Landing Weekend training, Be the Mentor, and is part of a five issue blog series sharing a small snippet of learnings from different training sessions. Be the Mentor, featured talks from people who created their business to make a social impact, by developing incredible mentorship relationships, experiences and programmes. This blog centres on Emma Joy’s session, which presented a number of actionable steps for us to takeaway and apply, not sharing them would be an injustice. So, enjoy our recap!
 This blog has been selected from the My Moon Landing weekend training, Be the Ally, and is part of a five-issue blog series sharing a small snippet of learnings from different training sessions. This training featured talks from change leaders about advocacy and how our community can take action to foster a supportive and inclusive atmosphere for Black women, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people in society.
Lady Phyll, a Black woman of Ghanaian heritage is an internationally renowned advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and is consistently doing deep intersectional work. Our conversation naturally touched upon the work of Audre Lorde, Black social movements, individual and collective leadership and succession-planning.  This blog has been selected from the My Moon Landing weekend training session, Be the Ally, and is part of a five issue blog series sharing a small snippet of learnings from different training sessions. This session featured talks from change leaders about advocacy and how our community can take action to foster a supportive and inclusive atmosphere for Black women, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people in society.
|