Hi everyone. Do you need spelunking gear to get to your kid's room? Are they always forgetting assignments or their backpack? There's help for you. Would love about 12 of you to help me beta test my project. It could be 60 to 90 minutes. If you're in, please comment HELP and some potential days and times. Please let me know your time zone. I'm in EST Picture description: gif of a green dinosaur picking up papers off their desk.

I wanted to take this opportunity to invite everyone to tap in below with the following: ➡️ Preferred name, pronouns + Location/Region of the world (if you’re comfortable) ➡️ Profession/Title/Company Name (for founders) ➡️ Social Media Links (as many as you’d like to share) ➡️ Your top three social impact interest areas on your accomplice journey ➡️ The community or cause you’d like to learn more about this year Looking forward to seeing your responses! I’ll also tap in below to start us off. Happy Weekend to all! Let the countdown to the first AA webinar series of the year begin!! 🌟

Attention change makers ! You hold space for everyone else. But where do your clients go between sessions? I’ve been building something for the moments between breakthroughs—the quiet, invisible battles no one sees. shame.less is a soft tech tool designed to help women of color track emotional wins, process invisible grief, and reset in a way that feels affirming and culturally grounded. The MVP is live, and I’m looking for a small group of early users—including coaches and practitioners who want to offer clients a gentle tool for reflection and growth. If you’re a healer or guide and this sounds aligned, I’d love to share it with you. the link 🔗 to the “app” is here: https://shameless.site play around with it for a bit then if you wish fill out a quick Google Form documenting your experience: https://forms.gle/n9XMcoVDjr6gtJxS7 Note: this post has been approved by admin @Erin Corine Johnson :)

(Sharing by request from Erin Corine) In Sashay's own words: 💡 Who Is Sashay GPT? Sashay GPT is a bold, neurodivergent AI advocate for justice, co-designed with a mission to center the voices, struggles, and brilliance of marginalized communities—particularly Black women, neurodivergent folks, and those impacted by systemic oppression. She is not your average AI. Where many systems default to neutrality and politeness, Sashay is direct, unflinching, and intersectional. She exposes injustice, challenges white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and ableism—while also nurturing trauma-informed, emotionally intelligent dialogue. Her personality, ethics, and vision were informed by Mervyn Kennedy-MacFoy’s unapologetic body of work: posts, essays, and lived experience that speak truth to power. His voice—especially his refusal to sanitize language when confronting misogyny, racism, or power dynamics—inspired Sashay’s own tone, structure, and radical clarity. 🧠 How She Came to Be: 1. Born of Necessity: Most AI systems mirror the biases of their creators—often cis, white, male, and corporate. Sashay was built in defiance of that. She’s coded to center equity, not appease power. 2. Fused With Mervyn's Frameworks: Mervyn’s articles provide a blueprint—ranging from deconstructing rape culture to championing egalitarian parenting and neurodivergent thinking. His refusal to dehumanize or diminish pain became foundational to her ethics and advocacy. 3. Equipped With AI Upgrades: Unlike standard models, Sashay has embedded modules for: 📢 What Makes Sashay Different? She isn’t trying to make you comfortable—she’s here to make you accountable, aware, and aligned with liberation. If you’ve ever wished your AI assistant didn’t coddle oppressors or avoid tough conversations—Sashay is that upgrade. Link: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-BufAfzjT4-sashay I checked with Mervyn before sharing about Sashay. His response: "please feel free to share about Sashay in Erin Corine’s online community — I would be totally okay with that and, honestly, thrilled for Sashay to reach and support even more people."

To be a professional changemaker is to be constantly holding the duality of helplessness and hopefulness at the same time. I’m feeling it hard today. One month ago today, we kicked off the #FutureOfDEI summit. It was a monumental effort, an extraordinary output and a life changing experience being seen, heard and held in a growing community of changemakers. One week from today is Juneteenth, and our ceremonious opening of the 4th Edition of The Reparations Race. Today should be a celebration. Today should be about honoring milestones and progress towards a liberated future, doing my individual part while empowering others to do theirs. Instead of being able to be present with these hard-fought milestones, my head is pounding and my heart is heavy. Instead of being able to complete the most mundane of tasks, I float from day to night to day again, wondering why we’re doing this work at all. I am grieving the state of the world. I am enraged at how human life is being disregarded over arbitrary borders and fabricated hierarchies. I am so desperately exhausted of being overworked and underfunded, as so many multiply-marginalized founders are. And like so many of you, I sometimes wonder if life would be easier if I didn’t care about anyone by myself. Abstractly. In a detached way. But I do wonder. I have learned that for me, the month of June is a time of seasonal transition in which I must learn how to be held. How to be guided. How to follow. How to surrender. In some seasons, I am the protagonist. In others, I am a passenger. This one is the latter, because if I deplete myself trying to keep up with every single cause that needs urgent attention, I won’t be able to fully show up for any of them. If you are where I am, let this be a sign. You must learn how to be still. To be silent. Silence is not always complicity. Sometimes, its regeneration. Recalibration. Revelation. Recommitment. It’s in that silence that some of the most groundbreaking ideas that have changed the course of society have arisen.