Raising Women Magazine Issue 38 – March 2026
As we approach International Women’s Day, we lean into this year’s agenda: Give to Gain. It is a simple phrase, yet profoundly strategic. Progress for women has never been sustained by visibility alone. It has been built through investment, mentorship, solidarity, and the deliberate transfer of opportunity.
On our cover, Ambassador Keisha McGuire represents this principle in motion. Her leadership in global diplomacy reminds us that when women give knowledge, courage, and access, they do not diminish their power. They multiply it.
This edition examines what it truly means to give: time, resources, platforms, protection, policy influence. And what we gain in return: stronger institutions, fairer systems, and a generation of women who enter rooms already prepared.
International Women’s Day is not a performance. It is a responsibility.
When women give intentionally, we all gain collectively.
The question is not whether we will celebrate. The question is how we will contribute.
Raising Women Magazine Issue 037 – February 2026
Visibility without integrity is performance. Voice without community is exposure. This edition honours women who speak anyway, who build anyway, who love anyway.
RW MAGAZINE Issue 36 – FEB 2026
February arrives wrapped in expectation. Red roses, grand gestures, and a narrow definition of love that often leaves women carrying far more than they receive. This edition of Raising Women Magazine gently resists that script. Ahead of Valentine’s Day, we chose to centre love as it is actually lived by women: complex, layered, and deeply […]
Emma Grede: Building Empires by Building Up Women
By Salem Joel Emma Grede doesn’t build alone. In an industry where solo founders often dominate headlines, she’s built a business philosophy around a simple but powerful truth: collaboration isn’t just good business, it’s transformative. As the co-founder of Good American, founding partner of SKIMS, and the first Black woman investor on Shark Tank, Grede […]
Beauty Rituals We Learn From Each Other: How shared beauty practices build community, confidence, and collective care
By Salem Joel There’s something quietly powerful about learning a beauty ritual from another woman. It isn’t transactional like a salon visit or distant like a tutorial, it’s collaborative. It’s one person saying, “This worked for me. Let me show you.” In that simple exchange, beauty shifts from a solo pursuit into shared knowledge. I […]
Collaboration Over Spotlight: Hands That Hold the World Together
By Chris Wede Most of the work that shapes our lives doesn’t come with applause. It doesn’t make headlines. It rarely has a face attached to it. But it always has hands. Hands that wake up early and fall asleep late. Hands that move through the same routines every day, even when no one is […]
Did You Know Silence Can Be Louder Than Sound?
By Ifeanyi’s Daughter By the time you notice it, it’s already happening. You finally get a quiet moment. No traffic. No notifications. No voices. Just… silence. And then — eeeeee. A faint ringing. A buzz. A hum. Suddenly your own breathing feels dramatic. Your heartbeat sounds like it’s auditioning for a drumline. And your brain? […]
Women 101 for Men: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding the Other Half of the World
By Daniel Agusi Let’s be honest: most men were never formally introduced to women. We met them, admired them, dated them, loved them, argued with them, but no one ever handed us a manual. So, we learned through experience, mistakes, confusion, and the occasional “You should already know this.” This is not that manual, but […]
The Purple Room Presents Your 2026 Pop Culture Preview
By Ifeoma Udu Welcome back to The Purple Room. With 2026 officially here, pop culture greets us with a year full of possibility, bringing films, music, and stories that spark imagination, emotion, and excitement. This year feels like a collective reset a chance to embrace fresh narratives, bold creative moves, and shared cultural moments that […]
I Am Grieving a Life I Never Lived
By Anonymous There are days when I look at my life and feel proud, and there are other days when I feel an ache I cannot explain. It is not regret exactly, and it is not sadness in the traditional sense. It feels more like grief, but not for something I lost. It is grief […]