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WOW: Sukhi Dhillon
While some people’s lives have taken the straight road, mine has taken the scenic route. Over the past 16 years, I’ve been blessed to be the Program Director of a dental hygiene school, run as Read more
While some people’s lives have taken the straight road, mine has taken the scenic route. Over the past 16 years, I’ve been blessed to be the Program Director of a dental hygiene school, run as Read more
A few months back, someone asked me why I am an ally, and my response was, ‘the question for me is why shouldn’t I be one’. I find it rather natural to be an ally Read more
We live in a society that is always asking women to take a back seat and is telling them that their voices don’t matter. However, when I was a kid, I was raised in the Read more
Growing up in a predominately female home, you can say I’ve been an ally to women my entire life, the same way they have been for me. From being raised by the strongest women I Read more
I am an ally because I am sick and tired of the way women are treated in society. Being raised by a single mother who was also raised by a single mother, my family was Read more
My name is Harleen Singh and I’m the founder of ‘The Lost Heer Project’. Growing up in a rigid patriarchal society in India, I had shamelessly enjoyed the privilege of being a male child. Though Read more
Working towards being an ally has been a lifelong journey for me and I am still learning how to be a meaningful ally for the women in my life. I haven’t always been aware of Read more
My name is Gurkaran Lail and I used to be one of the summer interns for Laadliyan last year. Growing up in a household full of women taught me a lot of what struggles and Read more
I never really considered myself to be an “ally” per se, I would say I’m more of an advocate or a driver of equality. It is with no question that there is a large discrepancy Read more
In a previous post, I discussed the results of a survey we ran in which we asked South Asian women (mostly in Canada) about feeling undervalued compared to the men in their lives. In this Read more