08Mar
To our fearless brown girls – NotYourWife
To the beautiful women within our community,
We wanted to write you a few words ahead of this years International Women’s Day. We hope, like us, this notion is something you #choosetochallenge.
Our culture often sets your happiness in the hands of others. Your happiness is about your job, your social status, your marital status, appeasing your family, society, conforming to it.
Today we want to tell you that you deserve so much more. Eventually you have to stop abandoning yourself for the comfort of others. Your self-worth shouldn’t be built through external validation or societal expectations.
Only you, define you.
This International Women’s Day, we #choosetochallenge these outdated cultural practices. We #choosetochallenge the barriers that continue to disempower the women in our communities. Establish what your happiness is, swap self-criticism for self-care, and most importantly, stop putting happiness in other people’s hands.
To our fearless brown girls: happiness is within you. It has always been within you.
Love always,
Kiran & Sonam x – Cofounders of NotYourWife
