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Writing Resonant Immigrant Lives: With Peace, Joy, Hope and Love…

by Yabome Gilpin-Jackson | Dec 1, 2025 | Ancestries, Destinies, Human Development, Identities, International Development, Resonance, Social Change

Thank you for reading my posts / Substack this year. If you have enjoyed my writings, I would appreciate your support to: Share my Work. Buy my books, for yourself or for gifts: My short story collections-Identities, Ancestries, Destinies For yourself/friends and...

Identity/Belonging/Agency Framework

by Yabome Gilpin-Jackson | Feb 25, 2024 | Ancestries, Destinies, Human Development, Identities, Social Change, Writing

I am so thrilled that my journal article–Identity, Belonging and Agency: A Transformative Development Framework for Global Africans/Black Peoples is published and live on the Journal of Transformative Education with Sage. It represents lessons learns from...

Living from Resonance = Living for Development

by Yabome Gilpin-Jackson | Aug 1, 2022 | Ancestries, Destinies, Human Development, Identities, Organizational Development, Social Change

When we are living from Resonance—operating from a deep identity core that keeps us individually and collectively focused on transformation—we are: Living on Purpose Living in Connection Living for Development Living with Gratitude (Valuing life) Living in...

Black Canadian History is my Family History

by Yabome Gilpin-Jackson | Feb 1, 2022 | Ancestries, Human Development, Identities, Social Change

This Black History Month, I am remembering a shared history that connects 2 places I call home: Sierra Leone and Canada. This year marks the 230th anniversary of the exodus and repatriation of approximately 1200 Black Loyalists from Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Freetown,...

“215 little voices woke the country:” A Resource List for Canadian Truth and Reconciliation

by Yabome Gilpin-Jackson | Sep 30, 2021 | Ancestries, Human Development, Social Change

“Two-hundred and fifteen little voices woke the country, 215 voices spoke to the world,” Algonquin Elder Claudette Commanda on #NationalTruthAndReconciliationDay2021 photo credit: https://tkemlups.ca/drum/ On May 27, 2021, I was living 10 minutes away...

In Anti-Racism Work: Keep Leaning into Messy

by Yabome Gilpin-Jackson | Jul 31, 2020 | Ancestries, Identities, Social Change

Image by Philippe Lazaro: http://www.philippelazaro.com/new-blog/antiracismflowcharts Colleague: “Did I offend you?” / Me: “No, you didn’t. You disclosed you needed to tell me your connection to why #blacklivesmatters is important to you, you...
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