Last Friday, March 10th we gathered over a refreshing drink from Curuba Lab in our Foreign Morning garden to celebrate International Women’s Day. It was a perfect warm summer evening as members of our community started to arrive and the buzz of conversation filled the space. Our Guest Speaker of the evening was Ayelén Aimé Garcia, a designer from Patagonia whose latest collection of limited edition handbags were designed to empower women with slogans like “Loving Myself is Multi-Orgasmic” and “Freedom is Being Yourself 100%” However, Ayelén never intended to make a collection with that miss ..read more

What does women’s day mean to you? Gender equality, freedom, love? Women’s Day has always been a big part of my life. In Bulgaria where I’m from, women receive flowers (usually tulips) from their husbands, fathers or brothers in celebration of simply being - themselves. This is much different to the protests and strikes that have started happening in much of the Americas in the past few years. Because of that, this year I had a special curiosity to find out the origins of this internationally celebrated holiday and what exactly it represents. I was surprised to find that the origin did not be ..read more