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Girl Gone Smart: Cuties - Trigger warning
Guest post by: Abbe Hanley Trigger warning: sexual abuse, child abuse, child sexual abuse, and racism. Note from GGS: I've been seeing a...

Heather C Fazio
Sep 14, 20203 min read
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Girl Gone Authentic: When Your Child Is In Danger
Doctors found a large tumor in my daughter’s neck a few weeks ago. There’s no way to say that but to say it, and to say that as you read...
bryannefiglia
Jul 29, 20205 min read
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Girl Gone Smart: Guest Post - Racism in a "nice" Albany neighborhood
Guest post by Abbe Hanley, Language warning My earliest memory of racism is from elementary school. A boy told me my skin was “dirty like...

Heather C Fazio
Jun 15, 20205 min read
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Girl Gone Smart: I have work to do
"No matter how open-minded, socially conscious, anti-racist I think I am, I still have old, learned, hidden biases I need to examine. It...

Heather C Fazio
Jun 14, 20202 min read
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Girl Gone Off: On Ending Abuse
Content warning: language, descriptions of violence I had a blog. I really did. But I’m not sure how to share it today, just like I...
bryannefiglia
Jun 3, 20207 min read
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Girl Gone Smart: Uncomfortable? Good. (Language warning.)
Self-awareness is a son-of-a-bitch but a necessary one. I finished the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo about a week ago and it...

Heather C Fazio
May 28, 20204 min read
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Girl Gone Smart: Thank you, Omari Newton - a hero in your own right
This past week, an American hero showed the country how to handle the ridiculousness of this administration. I began writing a piece...

Heather C Fazio
Jul 1, 20193 min read
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GIRL GONE SMART
SHE'S BACK... AND BRINGING FRIENDS.
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