Acts of service men are dangerously attractive.
Fixing problems, making sure you’ve eaten, charging your phone, carrying your things… that’s romance to me.
Suella, you dismissed young people that didn’t want Brexit because of the damage to our economy, in fact you told us if we didn’t like it- leave. Many of us did
In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.”
The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove.
So I got pissed.
Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids.
Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women.
That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm.
Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.
Charleston White walks off podcast after interviewer gets mad at his opinion on baby mama/daddy culture 😳
“I’ve Got 2 Kids By 1 Woman That I Was Married To… I Ain’t Got A Bastard Baby”
Tumi Fola, a 23-year-old Black woman from the UK, became the first blind Black female lawyer (barrister) in the United Kingdom.
She qualified despite major challenges and is now inspiring others in similar situations.
Trailblazer. 👏🏾
I've actually tasted trying to fix people, and I've tasted forcing the truth down their throats. I highly recommend not caring more about people's lives than they do. No one is your assignment.
Not even the ones you love.