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The costs of awakening, or support BGIM Media

May 10, 2020February 21, 2020 by Shay
A person's hands forming the shape of a heart, with a setting sun in the background framed within that "heart"

I am going to keep this short and sweet: If this site is valuable to you, and you have the financial capacity, please become a monthly patron or make a one-time gift today.  It’s been a year since I last directly reached out and asked supporters to support the site; though I do post semi-regular …

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Categories Activism, Blogging, Racial and Cultural, Writing Life

This is a business and a mission, not a performance

May 10, 2020November 29, 2019 by Shay
Shay Stewart-Bouley

I am a professional. I am a small business owner. And I am a human being. Why do I feel like I need to say these things? Because of a comment sent to the previous post here at the BGIM Media site, which literally had nothing to do with the actual piece written by Samuel …

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Categories Blogging, Commentary, Health, Maine, Random babble, social media, World of Work, Writing Life 4 Comments

The dark side of speaking to truth

October 23, 2019 by Shay

Back in the Stone Age when I started writing about race in 2003, there was little in the way of social media. Obviously, there were discussion boards and Google but back then, people often looked at you oddly when you talked about your online life. There was no Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Tik Tok. Hell, …

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Categories Activism, Commentary, Racial and Cultural, Writing Life 4 Comments
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