Standing in Our Power

✨ We’re excited to uplift Iranti Ẹjẹ: Menopause Conference for the Global Majority, organized by one of our founding core leaders and featuring several of our beloved community members 💜

Full list of speakers, panelists, and sponsors coming soon — deep gratitude to all who are making this possible 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Between the powerful panels, presentations, vendors, and daily offerings, you won’t want to miss a moment. 🌺 Tickets and day passes are available through the link in bio of

For details on keynote speakers, panelists, partners, and sponsors, visit IrantiEje.com.

✨ We’re excited to uplift Iranti Ẹjẹ: Menopause Conference for the Global Majority, organized by one of our founding core leaders and featuring several of our beloved community members 💜

Full list of speakers, panelists, and sponsors coming soon — deep gratitude to all who are making this possible 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Between the powerful panels, presentations, vendors, and daily offerings, you won’t want to miss a moment. 🌺 Tickets and day passes are available through the link in bio of

For details on keynote speakers, panelists, partners, and sponsors, visit IrantiEje.com.

SiOP founding core leaders ._dayanaramarte and at the Gala aka “social justice prom.”

So much joy in reconnecting and setting intentions to conjure magic…

Love you Dr. Dee 🌺

💜 Loving yourself is the medicine 💗 This is the truth that has anchored Standing in Our Power from the very beginning. We sought to remember what leadership truly means when it’s rooted in culture, in spirit, in right relationship, in community, and in our whole selves.

Our thriving is more than a job title.
Beyond productivity.
And definitely not about the polished performance we’ve been trained to perfect.

SiOP was born from deep listening among Women of Color leaders, which revealed that the systems we were navigating—nonprofits, philanthropy, movement spaces—were draining us. That we were losing too many brilliant leaders, especially Black women and Women of Color, to burnout, illness, and grief that never got named. And we said: no more.

So we came to the mountain.
Nestled ourselves in nature.
Communed in circles.
Lit sage, candles and incense upon altars.

We slowed down, surrendered.
We told the truth.
And challenged ourselves to live and lead like the future we imagined is possible today through embodiment.

We practiced leadership that doesn’t separate our politics from our prayers. We allowed our bodies to speak, our spirits to lead, and our relationships to be the infrastructure. We remembered that we are not broken and in need of fixing.

We welcomed being witnessed. Held. Honored. Restored.

And now, as we ruminate on this journey—on all that we built, broke open, and became—we want you to know that a deeper reflection is coming. We’re taking time to name the impact, the lessons, and the lineage. What we are creating is a love letter. A testimony. A living archive.

But before all of that, we just want to remind you:

Loving yourself is the medicine.
It always has been.
You don’t need to earn rest.
You don’t need to prove your worth.
You are already whole.

We love you. Stay tuned.

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Standing in Our Power is about being rooted—firm in who we are, clear in our purpose, and connected to something greater.

It’s about alignment. When we stand in our power, we rise together.

We were wounded in relationship, so too must we heal in relationship 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

Standing in Our Power (SiOP) was born from this truth—a space where Women of Color could reclaim our leadership, our healing, and our wholeness together. We recognized that the wounds we carried—of isolation, scarcity, burnout, and betrayal—extends beyond the personal. They are systemic, historical, and designed to keep us disconnected.

So, we circled up to heal in relationship. To practice being in solidarity. To remember that collective care is not a luxury. It is the path to liberation.

Over the years, SiOP evolved into an interdependent ecosystem– a practice ground for radical trust, deep witnessing, and holding each other through transformation. It reminded us of our collective responsibility. We tapped into and practiced our ancestral way, centered spiritual wisdom.

We understood that healing is a path we walk together. So we walked. Towards our north star– a collective vision where joy and abundance filled our bellies because everyone had enough.

bell hooks taught us that love is an act of will—both an intention and an action. She emphasized that healing transcends self-care; it encompasses how we care for one another. Indigenous wisdom reminds us of our interconnectedness, bound in sacred relationships—to each other, to the land, with our ancestors, and with all beings across time.

In a world that has fragmented us, true solidarity must be transformative, not merely performative.

Reflective Inquiry: In what ways are you centering healing as a collective practice? Drop a comment and let us know

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Happy International Women’s Day 💕

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Belonging is a soft, inner revolution,
found in the sanctuary of our own breath.
A place the world cannot touch,
no matter how it claws at our peace.

This world has tried to unname us,
to unroot us,
to scatter us like dust in the wind.
We are still here,
planting ourselves
in the soil of all that is sacred.

From this grounding, we rise and flow—
a wave swelling with the voices of the unheard,
hands pressed to each other,
crafting possibility out of the impossible.

Belonging hums in the marrow of us,
safety blooms in the warmth we conjure.
Together, we are a fire unquenchable,
a vision that’s irresistible and unstoppable.

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