From Diana Shaw: Why I Left

pexels.comI read this in my perpetually overflowing email box this morning. It felt like I had picked up one of my notebooks I "found" aga

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I read this in my perpetually overflowing email box this morning. It felt like I had picked up one of my notebooks I “found” again.

The work to maintain and secure women’s rights is not easy. Most of that hardship comes from outside but some comes from inside. Whether you are in physical or digital spaces, there is rampant racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and overall mean-girling within the ranks.

What Diana shares rings true for me too. I have been open about the disrespect directed at Black women. Some people you thought you were getting along with for a very long time will soon enough take the opportunity to treat you like the hired help. Then wonder why you seem “ungrateful” for the position.

Anyway, Diana’s story is worth a read. We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to building strong and authentic alliances.

This part of the work truly speaks to me. My educational background in Organizational Management & Development taught me that an organization’s greatest asset is its people—the ones on the front lines doing the work. The same is true here. In women’s work, women are the greatest asset. Their voices, experiences, and power deserve recognition and respect.

But here’s the challenge: our inability to form strong, authentic alliances across race, culture, religion, and other divides is a significant weakness. It leaves us vulnerable, creating openings for outside forces to manipulate and exploit us to their advantage.

If we don’t stand together, we risk losing what we’ve fought so hard to protect. That’s why building these alliances isn’t just important—it’s necessary for our survival and our power.

Women are going to have to value and respect one another more than the pursuit of rights, crowd validation, and ‘power’.

Self-love in all things-where “self” is all the women (divinely created female human beings) who make up womanhood.

Why I Left

Diana Shaw

Some readers wonder why I suddenly vanished from this website and its connected accounts. At first, my departure was due to personal matters and was meant to be temporary. But over time, I questioned whether I truly wanted to return.

Reasons

I was being harassed by a group. They had launched and monetized a similar website a few years after mine. Two of them invited me to work for them, framing it as an honor. I ignored both messages. Why?