BLOGS
Our blog is a meeting place for our community to engage in important conversations. We come here to connect, learn, and grow. We’ll share updates and perspectives, interviews with experts, and tips and advice on how to navigate workplaces and beyond as Women of Colour.
Collective Visioning as a Practice of Care, Resistance, and Liberation
In the midst of war and despair, we turned to collective visioning as a way to dream beyond survival. Because imagining liberation together is not a luxury, it’s how we reclaim hope, power, and possibility.
Four Years Strong: Evolving with Purpose and Community at Our Core
As we celebrate four years at Thousand&One, we feel it’s important that our vision, mission, and offerings reflect who we are now. Because the world has changed. And our community demands we respond.
IWD 2025: What does ‘Accelerate Action’ mean to you?
As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, we turned to the fierce feminists and global changemakers in our communities to share what ‘Accelerate Action’ means to them.
End of Year Reflections: 4 Takeaways for 2025
As 2024 winds down, we’ve been thinking a lot about all that has been lost. In this final blog of the year, we share 4 key takeaways that can help us retain hope and build solidarity.
Interviewing 101: 5 Tips for Better Performance
Most of us would agree that interviews can be filled with dread. If you’re a WOC, this feeling is even more daunting. In this blog, we share 5 tips we've acquired over the years to help you perform better in interviews.
Dismantling the ‘Self’: A Decolonial Approach Towards Collective Liberation
As WOC, it so often feels like the weight of the world falls on our shoulders, impacting every single aspect of our lives. How do we keep going? The answer? Adopting decolonial practices that push us towards centring collective care and liberation.
Part II – How Workplaces and Leaders Can Support Women of Colour
In this second part of our two part series, we share three additional strategies workplaces and leaders can adopt to better support Women of Colour in the workplace.
International Women’s Day 2024: 7 Inspiring Reads by Women of Colour
In light of this year’s International Women’s Day theme, Inspire Inclusion, we share seven influential reads by Women of Colour who have inspired us to think and act more inclusively.
Part I – How Workplaces and Leaders Can Support Women of Colour
The workplace can often be a lonely and hostile environment for racialized folks. But there are ways for leadership and executive teams to ensure a smoother ride for WOC. Here are three actionable steps to consider.
We are More than Our Jobs: Untethering our Identities and Decentring Work as WOC
Decentering work and detangling our identities is easier said than done. We speak to two DEI experts and coaches, Karen Patwa and Sacha Thompson about how WOC can decenter work.