Do you celebrate Womxn’s History Month in March? I do! In the US, this month is all about honoring and celebrating womxn while also encouraging reflection of womxn’s all-too-often overlooked contributions to the world. One easy way? Check out alternative spellings to “women”, such as my use of intersectional feminism’s “womxn” throughout this page.
As a feminist and working womxn myself, I love celebrating the amazing people in my life, often through words and quality time. This website provides a platform to highlight and spotlight incredible people, and so in March 2022, I started a “Womxn in Progress” campaign. 2022’s campaign included social media and blog posts of 5 remarkable friends. In 2023, I’m taking the plunge and doing more than writing; I’m starting a Womxn in Progress podcast!
Introducing Womxn in Progress: Podcasts, Posts, and Social Spotlights of Creative Multi-Passionate People
My life is full of passionate, thoughtful people. Those I’m closest to have some stuff in common. Many are creative, driven to get good work done in their professional and personal lives. In addition, I’m consistently impressed by my friends’ courage in sharing their story. When I started Womxn in Progress in 2022, the first class of 5 womxn all allowed me to share to this website, my fairly private Facebook profile, and public Instagram profile. They were posted on every Wednesday in March 2022 in honor of #WomnCrushWednesday.
You might not know why I care about posting OTHERS’ stories, as well as my own. I have fostered many deep, years-long connections often through creative and collaborative projects, and I want to give space to others’ voices. Female-led organizations and female entrepreneurs inspire me, and most of my work involves female leadership, including my marketing work at a school, partnering with a female-led athletic company on social, focusing my freelance practice on supporting creative womxn, and also coaching Girls on the Run. But I also recognize that my various positions are only a part of me. Outside of work, creativity sets my course via dance, videography, MMA, slam poetry, and film criticism.
Creativity and curiosity are amongst 2 of my biggest values, and so I designed Womxn in Progress to feature fellow multi-potentialites. 1:1 interviews are based on entries to this short form, so submit yours! Within 2022’s blog spotlights and 2023’s podcast episodes, you’ll see attempts at work/life balance, thoughts on identity, and creative practices. Ultimately, humans are #WorksInProgress, so my goal is to honor the practice and process of meaningful, creative work, not simply the final product. Capitalism is highly valued in the Western world, so these blog posts and podcast episodes are kind reminders to value progress, process, and truth.
My aim is to create a virtual space for creativity, expression, practice, and womxn empowerment.
Did Instagram or Facebook bring you here? You may have noticed my social posts may look a little different than this website. That might be because my website is less filtered and driven by words. Temporarily disrupting social media’s penchant for polarizing content and echo chambers, Womxn in Progress is instead about collaboration and creativity of real humans, not trolls. Perhaps this content can serve as both an algorithm and serotonin booster, cultivating conversations and connections, and so I need your help!
There are a few ways to contribute to Womxn in Progress:
- Friends, family, and followers, if you are a cis or transgender womxn, non-binary, queer, or gender fluid AND you are open to self and social expression, please consider applying for a #womxninprogress spotlight. Fill out the short application for yourself only.
- If you have a friend for a spotlight, simply forward this webpage to them to see if they’re interested.
- Please give credit to both my website and the working womxn when sharing to your own channels and/or networks. Respect their names, titles, and pronoun(s).
- Please recognize that my website and social media profiles are not neutral. These spotlights feature my real friends and family, and I too am a real human being with thoughts and feelings. Be kind, be real!
- Cruise through previous #womxninprogress blog posts (and listen to episodes once they’re out). In 2022, they were Marissa (singer, music teacher, city councilperson), Emily (Girl Scout, STEM teacher), Amy (mother, decal designer), Magdalena (anthropologist, Spanish teacher, photographer), and Mikayla (mother, chemist, and author).
Please know that I believe in you, whether you choose to submit a spotlight request or otherwise. Your worth is not dependent on status, sharing, or frankly these spotlights. Creative work, whether it’s private or public, paid or just for fun, matters to the world. I hope these Womxn in Progress spotlights inspire you to keep doing good work. Thanks and see you online.