Thirteen: Lessons for Every Teen Girl’s Journey to Womanhood

Be a Leader and Not a Follower

By Kizzy Kittrell Dogan --- If you are growing up in a household similar to the one I grew up in, chances are you have heard the statement “Be a Leader and Not a Follower” quite a bit. Ironically as annoying and misleading as that statement was for me growing ...

“Strong Black Woman” Syndrome

By Kizzy Dogan --- “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.  Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?”     – Sojourner ...

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