Today is #GivingTuesday and the perfect day for you to support local, national, or international causes with your time, money, voice, or other resources.
Here are 4 Birmingham-based organizations I hope you will consider supporting today and beyond.
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It’s Almost Time to Write and Blog Like Crazy!
Every November I challenge See Jane Write readers and members who blog to publish a new blog post every day for 30 days. I call this challenge #bloglikcrazy. I give participants encouragement along the way by sharing blogging tips and post ideas and if you use the #bloglikecrazy hashtag when you share your posts on social media I’ll help promote your posts, too.
To be honest, I originally started #bloglikecrazy because November can be a lonely time for non-fiction writers. National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo) is also in November, which means all my fiction writer friends are busy trying to write a 50,000-word novel in a month and no one can come out to play! So, I decided to create a writing challenge for non-fiction writers who blog.
But this year I want to make sure I’m supporting See Jane Write readers and members who are taking on the NaNoWriMo challenge, too. So this month I’m hosting two events — one for my blogger babes and one for my lady writers — to help you prepare for all the writing and blogging we’ll be doing in November.
When Writing Is Not Enough
Writing can be a feminist act.
I believe this idea so deeply I did a TED Talk on it.
I believe that by sharing her story a woman can fight for equality and grow to love herself enough to believe she deserves it — no matter what society says.
This is why I teach. This is why I started See Jane Write. This is why I write. But sometimes writing is not enough. Sometimes I feel I have to do more.
Poet Ashley M. Jones discusses her experience as a guest on Code Switch LIVE from Birmingham
On Tuesday, August 14 Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji of the popular NPR race and identity podcast Code Switch hosted a live recording of the show in Birmingham at the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. This event, presented by Birmingham’s NPR station WBHM 90.3, drew a packed house and featured interviews with Mayor Randall Woodfin, WBHM news director GiGi Douban and local award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones. The discussions during the show tackled important issues about the city’s race relations, economic landscape and more.
Improve your social media skills at the Southern Social Summit
Are you a blogger or writer in the Birmingham area ready to kick your social media game up a notch? Or maybe you don’t even have a social media presence or strategy but you know you need one. If so, you need to meet me at the Southern Social Summit on Friday, August 31.