Women and Visibility: No. 2: The Invisible Self

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Mar 112019
 
Women and Visibility: No. 2: The Invisible Self

Reading Time: 26 minutes How can you be visible to others when you are keeping yourself invisible to yourself? The series of Women and Visibility is a journey through the challenges women in the 21st Century face in our path to fulfillment or when we want to share our gifts, embody our purpose or live our brilliance. In any of these instances, being visible is a necessity. But being visible elicits potent fear in women. This series is my attempt to describe why and to explore ways in which we can address this challenge so that we can free our radiance, unfold our potential and express our genius. In Article 1: “The Hunger that Devours our Visibility,” we address the hunger that both, pulls us towards becoming visible and sabotages our capacity to be visible. In this article, I want to explore the underbelly of women’s invisibility: when we are invisible to ourselves. Lights off Center In the first article I referred to a ceremonial performance I did last year for an audience of change-makers, artists and activists. The venue was an amazing cultural [Read more.]

Women and Visibility: The Hunger that devours our Visibility

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Feb 122019
 
Women and Visibility: The Hunger that devours our Visibility

Reading Time: 12 minutes I belong to several communities of writers, activists and entrepreneurs where the fear of visibility is pandemic –especially, though not exclusively among women. In this first article in the series Women and Visibility, I want to share the hunger that both drives us towards visibility and devours it, keeping us not only isolated, but painfully torn between our desire to share our gifts and our fear that we are not enough. As I write this I have a flashback to the last ceremonial performance I did some months ago. It was for an audience of change-makers and activists. The topic of the whole event was liberation. The venue was an amazing cultural cafe that offers very unique events. Even before I stepped on stage, I was surprised by how often the main performer or poet was not visible. The lights were focused on the musicians but the center speaker/singer/poet was in the dark! Since the setting was a collaborative effort of the performers themselves, it seemed meaningful that they were leaving center-stage, –the most visible position on stage– in the [Read more.]