Crittenton Women’s Union has soft-launched the Voices Project, a blog that I’ve been helping with for close to a year. This is a blog that allows lower income women to give voice to their issues, concerns, and feelings. It lets us share in their situation: the despair, the setbacks, the victories, and most importantly the hope.
The internet is the great equalizer for this world. It gives us all a voice. But it gives some of us more of a voice than others. Those of us that know how to publish, can. Many don’t know how or don’t have access to the resources. We hear a skewed voice when we listen to the blogosphere.
CWU envisioned this project as a way to train lower income women to blog their issues and their point of view. They lined up some wonderful guest bloggers that will respond to the womens’ issues and write guest pieces to them. Boston city councilor Sam Yoon has already written a piece, and Anita Hill wrote today a call to Reclaim the Day.
Please take a read. The posts are all compelling but I find this one by Jill especially indicative of the situation many women face.
This is an excellent project and the only one of it’s kind that I am aware of written by and for lower income women. Please come back frequently, subscribe to the rss, cross link the blog (not my post please, they deserve the attention not me), forward to friends, and lend your support to these people that are trying so hard to become self-sufficient members of society. Write a comment if you can, offer your encouragement or advice. And if you feel like it click the donate now button - CWU is a very worthy cause.
Thank you.
- Steve
Technorati Tags: Crittenton Women’s Union Voices Project, Voices Project, lower income women, women self-sufficiency, anita hill, sam yoon, Boston womens’ organization