My name is De’Ana Forbes. I am a student at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, VA. I enrolled at the university in the fall of 2013 after being recruited to run hurdles for the women’s track and field team. The...
Stories
Every woman and every girl inspires us. We are deeply grateful to those who have shared their stories about breakthroughs in their lives, the ways in which they have overcome fears, beliefs, or events that once kept them from connecting with their inner strength and recognizing their amazingness. Some of these stories are stories of pain and how a women or girl triumphed over it. As you read these stories, rather than focusing on the pain, choose to focus instead on the triumph and the ways that others have overcome what may once have seemed impossible to overcome. Let's celebrate their triumphs!
ok so this is my story oneday i was going school my hair was open people staring to call me witch i tell them is none of you business my life my when i get home i cry like kid and it hit me on my head and on my heart and after that i say to...
This story belongs to my childhood till I grew up and the topic is quite vast but I would like to highlight my character that how i faced harassment in my childhood where no one support me and want me to shut my mouth so that it wouldn’t...
Hello, my name is Rosa. I have recently published a book called Trapped inside my mother’s mirror, I have a passion for Youth and would like to share it with you so it helps others. As a child I experienced a very hard upbringing. I was born...
How should I begin….. Okay it all began when I was young maybe I was 11 then, I regretted the day for eavesdropping, regretted the day for asking…. Regretted the day for giving it a try, slowly slowly slowly it builds from the...
I do not think that I fully understood my inner strength until I was old enough and wise enough to understand what it meant. I must have been in my early 30s. At almost 8yrs old we migrated to the UK from the Caribbean twin islands of Trinidad...
I fell in love with a woman from Serbia, living here undocumented. Left her country after being attacked for being gay. Came here on a work visa. The visa expired, she continues to work here and pay taxes. She can not get health care...
My name is Donna and i would like to share “Our Journey”. It’s the short version about my life and how three kids saved me. It was produced for the foster care system. It talks about some very sensitive and serious issues so...
I’ve faced many of challenges. Well to start, I was a caregiver for my mom at the age of 13, and that had a huge impact on my school life. I would constantly get bullied and also didn’t have much friends because I simply...
Yo soy increíble porque estoy prosperando a pesar de todas las cosas que me decían que no podría hacerlo. Hola, tengo 23 años y soy estudiante de maestría. Si hace unos años me hubieras preguntado que si yo pensaba que llegaría a estar...