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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