So this Spring I took planting some plants in my house. In the past, I would go buy plants and well they would eventually die, not because I didn’t water them but because I would overwater them. It happened so many times that I decided to create a narrative that I could not plant, I didn’t have a […]
Continue readingRaquel Batista receives Dr. Dayanara Marte and Psychotherapist Karina Aybar to discuss the status of mental health and self-care in these challenging times. It’s GOING DOWN TONIGHT: @ MNN El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center and Critica.NYCMental Health, COVID and Healing-with yours truly, Karina Aybar-Jacobs and Raquel Batista. What an honor to share the stage with these beautiful […]
Continue readingSAVE the DATE March 7th, 2017 7pm-8:30pm EST Join your host Dayanara Marte and Zoe Flowers, Tuesday, March 7th from 7pm-8:30pm EST. 2nd National Call for women of color in leadership for a moment of debrief and exhale from a STATE OF WTF….. Inspired by our first call… with over 80 registrants on Feb 7th, women of […]
Continue readingDayanara will be sharing her knowledge with participants at the upcoming 2016 Enhancing Capacity Seminar presented by The National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA) in partnership with the U. S. Department of Justice – Office on Violence Against Women. The Enhancing Capacity Seminar, “Culturally Specific Services Addressing Sexual Assault”, will be held […]
Continue readingSister Song is committed to building the personal capacity of their staff as the foundation for building a sustainable organization and reproductive justice movement. Black women need to trust themselves and each other in order for the world to #TrustBlackWomen!
Continue readingMay -June 2016 Dayanara Marte Associate Artists @ Body Ecology Spring Intensive You are invited to join me at the culminating ritual on June 18 at 7 pm at Hi-Arts: A New Home for Hip Hop Arts and Urban Culture. “I am art, I am creativity! My life, this life, is a performance where I have […]
Continue readingNYC Healer @ Black Women’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission on Sexual Assault On Thursday the first Black Women’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission will convene in New York City. Intergenerational survivors will speak about their experiences and we will collectively interrogate the history of accepted sexual violence against Black women in America. View the Public Program: […]
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