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Deeply Detroit

Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
Delighting Detroit Parents with an Edgy New School - Comments (2)
What Will Be Your Random Acts of Kindness? - Comments (6)
The Zen of Toiling in Obscurity and Exploding Into Stardom - Comments (2)
Forget Big Boxes! Five (pretty sweet) Reasons for Keeping Your Detroit Dollars Local - Comments (0)
In Another Lifetime – A Love Letter to Five Great Detroit Women - Comments (2)
How to Take a Cheap (but Elegant) “Staycation” in Detroit - Comments (2)
10 Shortcuts to Falling in Love with Detroit - Comments (1)
“That’s a Very Beautiful Baby,” the Homeless Man Said - Comments (10)

Detroit Arts & Entertainment

The Zen of Toiling in Obscurity and Exploding Into Stardom - Comments (2)
How to Take a Cheap (but Elegant) “Staycation” in Detroit - Comments (2)
10 Shortcuts to Falling in Love with Detroit - Comments (1)
Shetroit: Putting the ‘She’ in Detroit - Comments (2)
All About Detroit Reading List - Comments (1)
Weaving Community: Meet the Shetroit Blog Team! - Comments (1)
A Starving Artist Loves Her Life - Comments (14)

Disability Community

The Need to be Super Mommy … in a Wheelchair - Comments (6)
How to Take Charge of Those Uncomfortable Moments When You’re Compared to a Porn Star - Comments (5)
“Accessible” Wedding Plans: Wheelchairs and All - Comments (5)
Warning: Learning to Flip Grown Men Can be Good For Your Health - Comments (9)
A Tailor-Made Mother for a Child with a Disability - Comments (3)
How Roger Ebert’s Clarity & Courage Helped Me Redefine My Son’s Disability - Comments (10)
How to Be on the Ground Floor of Taking a Stand (Even When it Sucks) - Comments (9)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: What’s Your Relationship Worth? - Comments (0)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: When & Why the “Love Drug” Runs Out - Comments (0)
The Push-Pull of Those Prickly, Yucky, Sucky Family Moments - Comments (2)

Divine Dessa-bility

How to Take Charge of Those Uncomfortable Moments When You’re Compared to a Porn Star - Comments (5)
“Accessible” Wedding Plans: Wheelchairs and All - Comments (5)
Warning: Learning to Flip Grown Men Can be Good For Your Health - Comments (9)
A Tailor-Made Mother for a Child with a Disability - Comments (3)
How to Be on the Ground Floor of Taking a Stand (Even When it Sucks) - Comments (9)
The Push-Pull of Those Prickly, Yucky, Sucky Family Moments - Comments (2)
Do I Look Like I Should Be in a Nursing Home? - Comments (4)
“Look Mommy, a LITTLE Mommy!” - Comments (2)
Rudeness Trumped by Showing the LOVE - Comments (2)
The Zen of Being Graceful in the Face of Raw Rudeness - Comments (31)

Education

Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
Racist Slurs Slung in the Classroom: Here’s How One Detroit Teacher Handles It - Comments (6)
Here’s How to Get Up, Admit Your Self-Worth Fears and Own Your Greatness - Comments (3)
How Roger Ebert’s Clarity & Courage Helped Me Redefine My Son’s Disability - Comments (10)
How to Be on the Ground Floor of Taking a Stand (Even When it Sucks) - Comments (9)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: What’s Your Relationship Worth? - Comments (0)
Secrets of Who’s Who Under Those Head Coverings - Comments (5)
The Heart Rending Secrets of Our Children in the Shadows - Comments (1)
Do I Look Like I Should Be in a Nursing Home? - Comments (4)
Friend or Foe for Motown Muslim? - Comments (1)

Environment

Why Detroit and YOU Are so Much Alike - Comments (1)
How to Bring the Whole You to Work - Comments (4)

Featured

An Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to Supporting and Protecting Robert Kelly - Comments (0)
I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
On Becoming Unfukwitable - Comments (47)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
How to Transform the World Through the Leadership of Women - Comments (3)
How to Take Charge of Those Uncomfortable Moments When You’re Compared to a Porn Star - Comments (5)
“Mommy, Can I Be Made in Detroit if I’m White?” - Comments (0)
“Accessible” Wedding Plans: Wheelchairs and All - Comments (5)
How Grandma Reacted When I Told Her I Was Gay - Comments (7)
Juicing While Black - Comments (28)

Feminism

I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
On Becoming Unfukwitable - Comments (47)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
How to Transform the World Through the Leadership of Women - Comments (3)
How to Take Charge of Those Uncomfortable Moments When You’re Compared to a Porn Star - Comments (5)
“Accessible” Wedding Plans: Wheelchairs and All - Comments (5)
How This Sign Lets Us Be Ourselves (says the Arab American Woman) - Comments (1)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: Learning Through a “Sex Play Date” - Comments (0)
Here’s How to Get Up, Admit Your Self-Worth Fears and Own Your Greatness - Comments (3)
Stop Corrupting Mothers Day! - Comments (5)

Get Lifted

On Becoming Unfukwitable - Comments (47)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)

Great Women

An Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to Supporting and Protecting Robert Kelly - Comments (0)
I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
On Becoming Unfukwitable - Comments (47)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
How to Transform the World Through the Leadership of Women - Comments (3)
In Another Lifetime – A Love Letter to Five Great Detroit Women - Comments (2)
Here’s How a Woman Talks Damn Straight - Comments (0)
What Women & Crips Have in Common - Comments (4)
Seven Fabulous Detroit Latinas You Want on Your Side - Comments (3)
Weaving Community: Meet the Shetroit Blog Team! - Comments (1)

Guest Blogger

An Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to Supporting and Protecting Robert Kelly - Comments (0)
I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
The Need to be Super Mommy … in a Wheelchair - Comments (6)
How Grandma Reacted When I Told Her I Was Gay - Comments (7)
Juicing While Black - Comments (28)
What They Don’t Tell You About Detroit - Comments (3)
It was Either Curling into a Fear Ball or Launching into Action (Guess What She Chose) - Comments (0)
How Grace Lee Boggs Helped Me Define My “Asian American-ness” - Comments (13)
Here’s How to Get Up, Admit Your Self-Worth Fears and Own Your Greatness - Comments (3)
Delighting Detroit Parents with an Edgy New School - Comments (2)

Healing

An Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to Supporting and Protecting Robert Kelly - Comments (0)
I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
On Becoming Unfukwitable - Comments (47)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
Black Boys: Do Not Let Them Make You Small & Invisible - Comments (1)
What the Trayvon Tragedy Can Teach Us About Being White - Comments (4)
How to be a Loving Daughter to Hard to Love People - Comments (1)
Why Detroit and YOU Are so Much Alike - Comments (1)
When Black Isn’t Beautiful … And How Sexual Healing Told Me Otherwise - Comments (4)
The Push-Pull of Those Prickly, Yucky, Sucky Family Moments - Comments (2)

Immigration

How This Sign Lets Us Be Ourselves (says the Arab American Woman) - Comments (1)
How Grace Lee Boggs Helped Me Define My “Asian American-ness” - Comments (13)
The Heart Rending Secrets of Our Children in the Shadows - Comments (1)
Adriana Pavon Wants to Help Your Career In Fashion - Comments (7)

Inspiration

An Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to Supporting and Protecting Robert Kelly - Comments (0)
I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
How to Take Charge of Those Uncomfortable Moments When You’re Compared to a Porn Star - Comments (5)
“Accessible” Wedding Plans: Wheelchairs and All - Comments (5)
How Grandma Reacted When I Told Her I Was Gay - Comments (7)
It was Either Curling into a Fear Ball or Launching into Action (Guess What She Chose) - Comments (0)
Here’s How to Get Up, Admit Your Self-Worth Fears and Own Your Greatness - Comments (3)
Delighting Detroit Parents with an Edgy New School - Comments (2)
A Tailor-Made Mother for a Child with a Disability - Comments (3)

Leadership

On Becoming Unfukwitable - Comments (47)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
How to Transform the World Through the Leadership of Women - Comments (3)
How to Take Charge of Those Uncomfortable Moments When You’re Compared to a Porn Star - Comments (5)
Juicing While Black - Comments (28)
How This Sign Lets Us Be Ourselves (says the Arab American Woman) - Comments (1)
What They Don’t Tell You About Detroit - Comments (3)
It was Either Curling into a Fear Ball or Launching into Action (Guess What She Chose) - Comments (0)
Here’s How to Get Up, Admit Your Self-Worth Fears and Own Your Greatness - Comments (3)
Delighting Detroit Parents with an Edgy New School - Comments (2)

LGBT

How Grandma Reacted When I Told Her I Was Gay - Comments (7)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: Unveiling the Mystique of the G-Spot - Comments (0)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: What’s Your Relationship Worth? - Comments (0)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: When & Why the “Love Drug” Runs Out - Comments (0)
How the World Series Healed My Heart - Comments (0)
How to Diffuse Bigotry in (about) 10 Minutes - Comments (0)
The Sticking-Your-Neck-Out Guide to Loving Courageously - Comments (5)
Survivors of Sexual Assault: Learn to Heal - Comments (0)
I Don’t Have a Husband – I Have a Wife - Comments (6)

Motherhood

The Need to be Super Mommy … in a Wheelchair - Comments (6)
“Mommy, Can I Be Made in Detroit if I’m White?” - Comments (0)
Warning: Parental Tantrum Ahead - Comments (3)
When the Action Hero Wants to Save the World and the Doll Wants to Party - Comments (2)
Here’s How to Get Up, Admit Your Self-Worth Fears and Own Your Greatness - Comments (3)
A Tailor-Made Mother for a Child with a Disability - Comments (3)
My Young Mother’s Secret Miracle (Me!) - Comments (2)
How to be a Loving Daughter to Hard to Love People - Comments (1)
The Foot-in-Your-Mouth Approach to Adoption - Comments (1)
Shouldn’t We Respect Pregnant Women & Their Fragile State? - Comments (0)

Motown Muslim

Racist Slurs Slung in the Classroom: Here’s How One Detroit Teacher Handles It - Comments (6)
How This Sign Lets Us Be Ourselves (says the Arab American Woman) - Comments (1)
My Mother’s Warning: “You know if you put it on, you can’t take it off” - Comments (7)
Secrets of Who’s Who Under Those Head Coverings - Comments (5)
Making Your Wedding More Than a Money Trap - Comments (0)
Single, Muslim and Eligible. Now what? - Comments (5)
Taking Charge of Those Blanket Untruths About Detroit - Comments (0)
What Body-Covering Burqas and Scanty Bikinis Have in Common - Comments (4)
Friend or Foe for Motown Muslim? - Comments (1)
Weaving Community: Meet the Shetroit Blog Team! - Comments (1)

Personal Growth

Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
Warning: Learning to Flip Grown Men Can be Good For Your Health - Comments (9)
What the Trayvon Tragedy Can Teach Us About Being White - Comments (4)
Warning: Parental Tantrum Ahead - Comments (3)
Here’s How to Get Up, Admit Your Self-Worth Fears and Own Your Greatness - Comments (3)
How to be a Loving Daughter to Hard to Love People - Comments (1)
What to do When the Monster Comes Roaring Out - Comments (1)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: When & Why the “Love Drug” Runs Out - Comments (0)
My Baby Fever is Running High - Comments (4)
Lessons from the ‘Occupied’ (Struggling, Partially Employed, Barely Mobile) Mom - Comments (14)

Personal insights

An Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to Supporting and Protecting Robert Kelly - Comments (0)
NIkki Patin On Why Testimony is Necessary - Comments (0)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
How to Transform the World Through the Leadership of Women - Comments (3)
Couples Retreats and Root Canals – It’s All About Digging Deep - Comments (2)
Juicing While Black - Comments (28)
Warning: Learning to Flip Grown Men Can be Good For Your Health - Comments (9)
What They Don’t Tell You About Detroit - Comments (3)
How Grace Lee Boggs Helped Me Define My “Asian American-ness” - Comments (13)
What Will Be Your Random Acts of Kindness? - Comments (6)

Profile Gallery

An Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to Supporting and Protecting Robert Kelly - Comments (0)
Hey Mama! Meet Your New Best Friend - Comments (2)
Shetroit: Putting the ‘She’ in Detroit - Comments (2)
The Messy, Prickly Process of ‘Detroit Works’ - Comments (0)
A Starving Artist Loves Her Life - Comments (14)

Race/Ethnicity

I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
How to Transform the World Through the Leadership of Women - Comments (3)
The Need to be Super Mommy … in a Wheelchair - Comments (6)
Racist Slurs Slung in the Classroom: Here’s How One Detroit Teacher Handles It - Comments (6)
“Mommy, Can I Be Made in Detroit if I’m White?” - Comments (0)
Juicing While Black - Comments (28)
How This Sign Lets Us Be Ourselves (says the Arab American Woman) - Comments (1)
What They Don’t Tell You About Detroit - Comments (3)
Black Boys: Do Not Let Them Make You Small & Invisible - Comments (1)

Relationships

Couples Retreats and Root Canals – It’s All About Digging Deep - Comments (2)
The Need to be Super Mommy … in a Wheelchair - Comments (6)
How to Take Charge of Those Uncomfortable Moments When You’re Compared to a Porn Star - Comments (5)
“Mommy, Can I Be Made in Detroit if I’m White?” - Comments (0)
“Accessible” Wedding Plans: Wheelchairs and All - Comments (5)
How Grandma Reacted When I Told Her I Was Gay - Comments (7)
What They Don’t Tell You About Detroit - Comments (3)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: Learning Through a “Sex Play Date” - Comments (0)
Black Boys: Do Not Let Them Make You Small & Invisible - Comments (1)
What the Trayvon Tragedy Can Teach Us About Being White - Comments (4)

Religion

Racist Slurs Slung in the Classroom: Here’s How One Detroit Teacher Handles It - Comments (6)
My Mother’s Warning: “You know if you put it on, you can’t take it off” - Comments (7)
Secrets of Who’s Who Under Those Head Coverings - Comments (5)
On Chanukah and Being Jewish in a Gentile World - Comments (4)
Single, Muslim and Eligible. Now what? - Comments (5)
Taking Charge of Those Blanket Untruths About Detroit - Comments (0)
What Body-Covering Burqas and Scanty Bikinis Have in Common - Comments (4)
Jackie Victor on Creating Jewish Community in Detroit - Comments (0)
Friend or Foe for Motown Muslim? - Comments (1)

Respect

Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
How Grandma Reacted When I Told Her I Was Gay - Comments (7)
Warning: Learning to Flip Grown Men Can be Good For Your Health - Comments (9)
The Foot-in-Your-Mouth Approach to Adoption - Comments (1)
Shouldn’t We Respect Pregnant Women & Their Fragile State? - Comments (0)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: How Do I Get Him to a Couples Workshop? - Comments (0)
They Giggled. I Knew Why. - Comments (2)

Sensuality/Sexuality

On Becoming Unfukwitable - Comments (47)
Couples Retreats and Root Canals – It’s All About Digging Deep - Comments (2)
How to Take Charge of Those Uncomfortable Moments When You’re Compared to a Porn Star - Comments (5)
How This Sign Lets Us Be Ourselves (says the Arab American Woman) - Comments (1)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: Learning Through a “Sex Play Date” - Comments (0)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: Exploring Back Door Love - Comments (0)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: About That Vibrator - Comments (0)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: Unveiling the Mystique of the G-Spot - Comments (0)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: What’s Your Relationship Worth? - Comments (0)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: About Those Smells in the Lady Area - Comments (0)

Slider

An Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to Supporting and Protecting Robert Kelly - Comments (0)
I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
On Becoming Unfukwitable - Comments (47)
Wearing Our Truth: Shetroit’s Raw Evolution - Comments (8)
How to Transform the World Through the Leadership of Women - Comments (3)
How to Take Charge of Those Uncomfortable Moments When You’re Compared to a Porn Star - Comments (5)
How Grandma Reacted When I Told Her I Was Gay - Comments (7)
Juicing While Black - Comments (28)
How This Sign Lets Us Be Ourselves (says the Arab American Woman) - Comments (1)
What They Don’t Tell You About Detroit - Comments (3)

Spirituality

On Becoming Unfukwitable - Comments (47)
Why Detroit and YOU Are so Much Alike - Comments (1)
Finding My Way Back To You - Comments (4)
The Shocking Truth About Detroit - Comments (1)
A Starving Artist Loves Her Life - Comments (14)

Surviving Violence

An Open Letter to Black Women Who Are Lovingly Devoted and Committed to Supporting and Protecting Robert Kelly - Comments (0)
I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
What They Don’t Tell You About Detroit - Comments (3)
Black Boys: Do Not Let Them Make You Small & Invisible - Comments (1)
What Trayvon Martin Means to Me & Should Mean to You, with LOVE from Detroit - Comments (1)
How Grace Lee Boggs Helped Me Define My “Asian American-ness” - Comments (13)
Your Sensuality & Sexuality: Asking for MORE in Your Sexual Relationship - Comments (0)
How a Ticket Violation Screams “You Do Not Belong!” - Comments (0)
Keeping it Real with ‘These People’ - Comments (3)
How to Diffuse Bigotry in (about) 10 Minutes - Comments (0)

Tales of Middle Journeys

The Heart Rending Secrets of Our Children in the Shadows - Comments (1)
How a Ticket Violation Screams “You Do Not Belong!” - Comments (0)
The Cure for the Common Everything - Comments (2)
A Crazy Idea To Populate Detroit - Comments (3)
Sylvia Rosales-Fike on Family & that Hyphen Thing - Comments (1)
Weaving Community: Meet the Shetroit Blog Team! - Comments (1)
How to Find Common Ground - Comments (0)

Videos

NIkki Patin On Why Testimony is Necessary - Comments (0)
Maya Angelou – Phenomenal Women - Comments (0)

Well Meaning White Woman

How to Transform the World Through the Leadership of Women - Comments (3)
Couples Retreats and Root Canals – It’s All About Digging Deep - Comments (2)
What the Trayvon Tragedy Can Teach Us About Being White - Comments (4)
The On-Air Women of WDET? AHEM, Where Are They? - Comments (5)
How to Celebrate Mother’s Day Even When it Hurts - Comments (15)
Hey Mama! Meet Your New Best Friend - Comments (2)
Shetroit: Putting the ‘She’ in Detroit - Comments (2)
Lessons from the ‘Occupied’ (Struggling, Partially Employed, Barely Mobile) Mom - Comments (14)
Detroit: The City with a Heart of Gold - Comments (5)
Weaving Community: Meet the Shetroit Blog Team! - Comments (1)

Workplace

I Have Nowhere Else To Report This - Comments (15)
What to do When the Monster Comes Roaring Out - Comments (1)
Retiring Gracefully (well, kinda) After Given the Boot - Comments (7)
How to Diffuse Bigotry in (about) 10 Minutes - Comments (0)
Hey Mama! Meet Your New Best Friend - Comments (2)