Recently we got to talk to Melyssa Webb and Dana Robb, two Big Ocean members who attended the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit held in Washington, D.C. in June. https://endsexualexploitation.org/cesesummit2019/ We asked them about their experience at the conference, learned more about what sexual exploitation is, and how we can help prevent it. Here…
At the U.N., the health of the economy is often used as an indicator of the effectiveness of programs and social patterns. With money flying as the devious banner of success, social progress has effectively been reduced to a person’s ability to feed the monetary system. The ability of women and men to contribute powerfully…
Big Ocean Women will be particpating in the 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference which will be held August 26-28, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. We are excited for this opportunity. The registration deadline was extended to August 1, 2019. If you are interested in attending, we would encourage you to come! If…
While I was at the U.N. this year, I attended several presentations about the power of a woman’s personal story. There were teenage girls who discovered their value simply because they were given a platform from which to share their voice. They were then able to shape their future story by creating projects to help…
https://youtu.be/6dfu5n-roXY A powerful message about
As Big Ocean Women we define a mother as any woman who has the best interest of the rising generation at heart. Our friend, Karyn Denny, is a mother both to her own children and to her Navajo community in Farmington, New Mexico. The importance of family and motherhood is woven into her cultural identity.…
Your heart is touched by needs of women and issues in your community and beyond, but it seems “virtually” impossible in your circumstances to be part of a generative solution. Follow your heart and join a virtual cottage meeting from the comfort of your home. This convenient monthly opportunity can help you be a wave…
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Our capacity to create and sustain human life is a tremendous power from which society can recognize and then begin to organize around.This framework challenges the current predominant social assumption that the sexed female body is less than fully human and therefore an inferior existence. Those words on the Big Ocean Women website stood out…