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Sexism and Racism Around the World

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Sexism and Racism Giving Compass
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Giving Compass’ Take:

• In Dear Ijeawele, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the pernicious and pervasive problems of sexism and racism around the world. 

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In Dear Ijeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes that she is angrier about sexism than she is about racism. “I don’t think sexism is worse than racism, it’s impossible even to compare,” she clarifies. “It’s that I feel lonely in my fight against sexism, in a way that I don’t feel in my fight against racism. My friends, my family, they get racism, they get it. The people I’m close to who are not black get it. But I find that with sexism you are constantly having to explain, justify, convince, make a case for.”

Simplicity and accessibility are the point: Adichie is not preaching to the converted; she doesn’t do “jargon” and finds the classic feminist texts “boring” (“Do you think The Second Sex is interesting?” she shoots back, when I press her). Although the “you” in the letter is “Ijeawele”, a Nigerian mother living in a traditional Igbo culture, Adichie is talking to young women the world over: “To get letters from women, saying ‘you make me feel stronger’ that means a lot to me,” she says. “It’s a woman in Denmark, it’s an email from a woman in Korea, it’s the woman in Ghana. I can’t tell you how happy that makes me.”

One of the most compelling injunctions in Adichie’s manifestos is to encourage girls to “reject likability”. “Oh my God, all that time wasted,” she says with feeling, that boys and men do not waste. Clinton and “all the harping on about whether or not she is ‘likable’,” is the perfect example of how she had to persuade friends that sexism was at work.

Read the full article about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by Lisa Allardice at The Guardian.

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    A few weeks ago, I joined hundreds of women from around the country for a symposium hosted by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI). Wow! I met some amazing women—nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, fundraisers and donors—who embodied the theme of “dream, dare and do” in their work to shape a better world. All of us there brought passion—for the causes we support and for the organizations we lead and help to sustain. But as I moved through the day, I couldn’t help but be concerned. How could we prevent the energy and excitement in those rooms from diminishing once we were all back in our day-to-day routines? The organization and causes we care so deeply about require more than just our zeal for our missions. We have to be equally tenacious about three things that enable our success: Prioritizing relentlessly to execute on our missions Developing a stakeholder strategy and managing our “relationship assets” Embracing an outsider’s view The world of philanthropy is vast, as are the causes we can support and ways we can support them. The WPI symposium drew together groups like Rumi Spice, a B Corporation of U.S. military veterans helping to build economies of rural Afghanistan by connecting spice farmers with global markets, and the Raikes Foundation whose grant-making focuses on the issues of education and youth homelessness. In the face of this awe-inspiring array, it’s easy to get caught up in thinking about all the things you aren’t doing. But that’s a path we shouldn’t take. Instead, we need to be hyper focused with our resources on what will move the needle for our missions—and be ruthless in pruning away distractions that don’t add value. How freeing to know there are so many others out there doing the things we aren’t! If we each focus on our core purpose, we’ll each be more successful—and have more opportunities to partner with others who are equally relentless about honing their own strengths. Read the source article at LinkedIn


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