Leslieann HobayanOpen Letter to AWP[I had applied for their 2023 AWP Community Scholarship, which grants awardees access to the annual conference by waiving the registration…Feb 1, 2023Feb 1, 2023
Leslieann HobayanI’m coming clean with a bit of truth for you[This was an email I sent to my community but feel that it deserves a wider audience to reach those of us who are called to be in service…Jul 26, 2022Jul 26, 2022
Leslieann HobayanHow BTS Rocked My Asian-American WorldMaverick Mondays are back for another season! Weekly posts about what it’s like to live in the US as a woman of color, as the daughter of…Mar 14, 2022Mar 14, 2022
Leslieann HobayanHeal Your Money StoriesLike the majority of folks of color, I was raised on money stories of scarcity. Add that to the fact that my parents were immigrants…Aug 2, 2021Aug 2, 2021
Leslieann HobayanThe Trauma of HustleThese are the messages we receive in our capitalist society. It’s all GO GO GO. Do Do Do! It’s no wonder we’re all suffering from some kind…Jul 26, 20211Jul 26, 20211
Leslieann HobayanThe Labels We Give Our Trauma[content warning: child abuse, sexual violence]Jul 19, 2021Jul 19, 2021
Leslieann HobayanYou Don’t Belong HereYou don’t know that you truly don’t belong until someone points it out to you.Jul 12, 2021Jul 12, 2021
Leslieann HobayanHealing Racial TraumaThe Summer of 2002 was the first time I entered a space exclusively for people of color. This was the intent of the space: to bring folks…Jun 28, 2021Jun 28, 2021
Leslieann HobayanKnow Who Your Friends AreThe last five years have been a kind of reckoning. A revelation into who’s got your back. And who doesn’t.Jun 7, 2021Jun 7, 2021
