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…3 min read·Feb 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…7 min read·Jul 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…7 min read·Mar 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…7 min read·Aug 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…5 min read·Jul 26, 2021--1--1
Leslieann HobayanThe Labels We Give Our Trauma[content warning: child abuse, sexual violence]6 min read·Jul 19, 2021----
Leslieann HobayanYou Don’t Belong HereYou don’t know that you truly don’t belong until someone points it out to you.5 min read·Jul 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…5 min read·Jun 28, 2021----
Leslieann HobayanMothering While Brown“You can use my foundation,” I said.5 min read·Jun 21, 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.7 min read·Jun 7, 2021----
