Take Care 🫀 Happy Holidays!
A SKIMVAIN giveaway, jobs and opportunities, new prints in the shop, and more!
Dear Readers,
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Wishing you a beautiful and safe holiday season and a joyful New Year.
Take care of yourself,
Attia Taylor
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
New In The Shop: Prints by Cara Elise Taylor
Cara Elise Taylor (Creative Director at Womanly) is a visual storyteller based in Los Angeles, working with analog photography, film, and writing to explore Afrolatinidad, Caribbean life, history, and community. You can now buy prints of her photo work in the Womanly shop.
A HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY FROM SKIMVAIN
For our December giveaway, we partnered with the amazing beauty gurus at SKIMDO and ROWSIE VAIN! Two lucky readers will receive 1 SKIMVAIN Lion Oil and 1 SKIMVAIN Lioness Wand.
To enter, reply or comment with your favorite beauty product and follow @skimdo and @rowsievain on Instagram. It’s super easy! Look good, smell good, and feel good going into the new year. Winners will be chosen on December 18th at 11am ET.
Featured Jobs and Opportunities
Administrative Program Manager — Soul Fire Farm, Full-time Upstate NY, $60k
Research & Communications Manager — Energy and Policy Institute, Full-time Texas or Remote, $80k - $90k
Manager, Communications & Marketing — Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Full-time Remote, $88k
Executive Director — RETI Center, Full-time Brooklyn, NY, $110k - $135k
Senior Director of Health Care — Power to Decide, Full-time Remote, $124k - $143k
Design Director, Project Lead — Upstatement, Remote, $150k - $220k
Asian American Writers' Workshop Fellowships — Due 12/15
Get the Word Out: a publicity incubator for early career authors — Due 12/31
Artists & Mothers 2025-2026 Grant — Due 1/2
MFA Community Arts Initiative: Artist Project (2025-2026) — Due 1/17
Booooooom Call to Submit: Array 3 Art & Photo Zine — Due 1/31
Forge Project Fellowships 2025 — Due 2/15
In Case You Missed It: Black-Owned Alternatives to Amazon for The Holidays
We put together a short list of the best Black-owned alternatives to Amazon and other big retailers this holiday season. These businesses are creating and selling beautiful, unique, and thoughtful products. If you’re going to shop, shop consciously.
More to catch up on…
The Maternal Health Hotline is a confidential, 24/7 support line for new and expecting mothers. Call 1-833-852-6262 if you’re having pregnancy, postpartum, or parenting-related emotional struggles.
A new maternal health fund aims to support Black Louisiana parents via Rewire.
A Black-owned luxury postpartum retreat is set to open in February 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina via Travel Noire.
Nikki Giovanni has passed away. She was a world-renowned poet and one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Read: “Her Dreams” at the Poetry Foundation.
Some cancer treatments can cause early menopause. Here’s what to know via Self.
The Black School is an experimental art school teaching radical Black politics out of New Orleans.
This report by the New York State Alternative to Incarceration (ATI) and Reentry Coalition illuminates specific service gaps and barriers to effective alternatives to incarceration.