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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)