Powerful!!! So happy for you taking this step to open up about these topics which is who you are, and that matters more than anything! Thank you for letting us into this needed awareness through your journey and experience. I look forward to learning from you, Noha! 🙌🏼 You rock 💯
Looking forward to this. You’re inspiring me to lean into exploring my identity - through a different lens obviously. Thank you in advance for your vulnerability!
I also didn’t know you can set up Substack this way - where subscribers could manage how they receive subscriptions. You just put me on! Now I don’t have to start from scratch if I want to create an extension. Thank you!
Marc, thank you so much! I'd love to read something similar from you if you decide to do it. I was actually inspired by Rebecca Smith A's Diary of a Black Woman in White World.
And yes, I didn't realize either and was going to start a totally separate newsletter. Sarah Fay explained it to me and others, including Russel Nohelty clarified additional details. A little bit of work up front but way less than starting a second newsletter from scratch!
Not to take up too much space in your comment section! But I am actually thinking of starting a new section/page to invite other dads to share letters to their children in the form of voice notes. I am finding this work so healing, I want to encourage and spread this to other men in my life. However, I do want to write to Myles about blackness and masculinity. I admire your courage. Sometimes talking abut identity is so beautiful, but also reopens a lot of wounds I would have to bare publicly. Frankly, I am still deciding if Substack would appreciate this. But you, my sister, are showing me the light!
Marc, I love this idea so much! You're always welcome to take up as much space as you would like in my comments section 😁 And I do think it would be extremely healing. I also believe that the voice of Black men is often missing from these conversations about identity, and would love to hear more from you on this, but I can totally appreciate that it's hard to open those wounds in such a public way. I get it - I still am undecided about certain topics for this section, and whether I'm going to delve into them, or if that's a level of vulnerability I'm not ready to explore. But I just decided to get started, and share what I'm comfortable sharing for now, and take it from there.
I think it’s so good that you’re doing this! Your perspective is needed. Your writing is inviting. I can’t wait to read more. (And I’m impressed with your command of the Substack bells and whistles that allow you to create multiple types of newsletters🤣).
Thank you! It took some effort up front but the platform is actually very powerful so there's a lot of great features to learn. I would highly recommend attending substack office hours and following people like Sarah Fay and Russel Nohelty who provide tonnes of value on how to leverage Substack.
I don't know what the hell that was and I'm not willing to spend my limited time to find out. It sounded anti-Semitic. I went to the guy's publication and it was full of really callous grossness, so, removed.
I am happy to engage respectfully. In fact, I feel like it's critical to do so in this time. But absolutely not getting into a debate that smears an entire religion/ethnicity/culture/whatever else as evil or "morally culpable". So gross. I do not understand who thinks this is a good approach. As if we haven't seen the way this plays out over and over in our world.
Thank you, so much I want to learn about this.
That’s awesome, Greg. There are several posts now on this topic so scroll through my newsletter feed to see them
Its Ginger..
Aaah sorry so embarrassing! Ginger. Welcome 😊😊
Its fine...Thank you
Not a Muslim, but I enjoy reading about it
Powerful!!! So happy for you taking this step to open up about these topics which is who you are, and that matters more than anything! Thank you for letting us into this needed awareness through your journey and experience. I look forward to learning from you, Noha! 🙌🏼 You rock 💯
Mariana, thank you so much. I'm so glad to have these discussions, and I'm so happy to have people along for the ride.
And many more will show up to join you, no doubt!
That's the hope. And to share their experiences too.
What a powerful start in the 12th grade story! Great idea for a new series.
Thank you, Tara! I'm pretty excited about it.
Looking forward to this. You’re inspiring me to lean into exploring my identity - through a different lens obviously. Thank you in advance for your vulnerability!
I also didn’t know you can set up Substack this way - where subscribers could manage how they receive subscriptions. You just put me on! Now I don’t have to start from scratch if I want to create an extension. Thank you!
Marc, thank you so much! I'd love to read something similar from you if you decide to do it. I was actually inspired by Rebecca Smith A's Diary of a Black Woman in White World.
And yes, I didn't realize either and was going to start a totally separate newsletter. Sarah Fay explained it to me and others, including Russel Nohelty clarified additional details. A little bit of work up front but way less than starting a second newsletter from scratch!
Not to take up too much space in your comment section! But I am actually thinking of starting a new section/page to invite other dads to share letters to their children in the form of voice notes. I am finding this work so healing, I want to encourage and spread this to other men in my life. However, I do want to write to Myles about blackness and masculinity. I admire your courage. Sometimes talking abut identity is so beautiful, but also reopens a lot of wounds I would have to bare publicly. Frankly, I am still deciding if Substack would appreciate this. But you, my sister, are showing me the light!
Marc, I love this idea so much! You're always welcome to take up as much space as you would like in my comments section 😁 And I do think it would be extremely healing. I also believe that the voice of Black men is often missing from these conversations about identity, and would love to hear more from you on this, but I can totally appreciate that it's hard to open those wounds in such a public way. I get it - I still am undecided about certain topics for this section, and whether I'm going to delve into them, or if that's a level of vulnerability I'm not ready to explore. But I just decided to get started, and share what I'm comfortable sharing for now, and take it from there.
Growing visibility and growing acceptance.
https://open.substack.com/pub/therightbalance/p/shotted-the-saudi-social?r=2iih4l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I think it’s so good that you’re doing this! Your perspective is needed. Your writing is inviting. I can’t wait to read more. (And I’m impressed with your command of the Substack bells and whistles that allow you to create multiple types of newsletters🤣).
Thank you! It took some effort up front but the platform is actually very powerful so there's a lot of great features to learn. I would highly recommend attending substack office hours and following people like Sarah Fay and Russel Nohelty who provide tonnes of value on how to leverage Substack.
Thank you, Chris. I'm really excited about it and it seems to have resonated with people, for which I'm so grateful.
Awwwwww, Kimia. Thank you ♥
I don't know what the hell that was and I'm not willing to spend my limited time to find out. It sounded anti-Semitic. I went to the guy's publication and it was full of really callous grossness, so, removed.
I am happy to engage respectfully. In fact, I feel like it's critical to do so in this time. But absolutely not getting into a debate that smears an entire religion/ethnicity/culture/whatever else as evil or "morally culpable". So gross. I do not understand who thinks this is a good approach. As if we haven't seen the way this plays out over and over in our world.