TanYah Global
Bio
TanYah is a versatile writer who has had such a wide range of life experiences it's like her own life story is fiction. She has authored several books and just finds writing the best therapeutic tool for good mental health & social change
Stories (23/0)
Corporate lynching
I know racism is real as a black woman in America. I have seen the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many others. I also know all about fear for my own children in that reality of overt violence. And these are consistent traumatic wake up calls to my mind of the racial disparities and injustice that still does exist. And, while those images are the violent depiction of the modern day lynchings we can relate to, many of us are getting lynched everyday in our social, political, professional and economic spaces. And the physical horror of lynchings have been replaced by more socially acceptable forms of terror in schools, businesses, and communities. It is nonetheless any less traumatizing when you feel the embodiment of the words nigger in action. An encounter with my own modern day corporate lynching awakened the grief and trauma of hundreds of years dating back to my ancestors. And this method of social and racial control meant to terrorize blacks has not disappeared, but is alive and well in the corporate and educational plantocracies of modern America.
By TanYah Global2 years ago in Journal
Jamaica Professional Youth Workers Association: International Youth Work Week 2021
The impact of youth work often goes unrecognized but as we continue to work towards recognition and professionalization, the journey continues. This year in a post-pandemic era with much displacement of nations, communities, and our target partners youth, we continue our mission as youth development innovators. The theme of youth work week 2021 ‘Champions of Youth Work’ echoes our sentiments here in Jamaica that youth workers are championing national development through their vehicle, youth development work.
By TanYah Global2 years ago in Motivation
Married Couple Spice Night Gone Wrong
Well, you know how they always say you have to keep your marriage spiced up. Yeah, that's great just make sure to think it through first okay. So, my husband and I jumped in the car, and just before speeding off like criminals in a high-speed chase, we told the family member left behind with the kids we'd be right back. Haha, little did he know he was our uniformed babysitter. So with no real plans, I was barely dressed, a tiny skirt and a tank top with no bra. We drove to the beach and hoped to enjoy the moonlight with no disturbance from the kids. We also hoped for some unbridled intimacy with no kids asking a million questions.
By TanYah Global3 years ago in Confessions
Embarrassed But Thankful
I hated having to go to Math extra classes but I had to because I had a nasty encounter with a teacher the year before and I now hated the subject and had my finals looming. As a result, Saturdays were no longer peaceful and I now had to take two buses for over an hour to get to school. I knew my parents did not have much and it was a strain on them for me to take these extra classes. That was the hardest part for me, we were already poor and I felt like I was saddling the family with more stress. So I did not complain but went every Saturday. And while I don't know that it really helped because my block needed psychological help, not academic help I was grateful to them for trying to get me help.
By TanYah Global3 years ago in Confessions
And You Shall Know the Truth
I grew up on a little island thinking I was just a descendant of slaves, and only if I studied history at the university level would I have learned otherwise. We were not taught any in-depth history about our ancestors before slavery, and so it seemed we had none. And so the views of us descending from monkeys, or living in the wild wing on trees like monkeys stuck deep. Because let's face it when you know and believe that story of nothingness, it then becomes very easy to be docile and accepting of any basic existence you are offered.
By TanYah Global3 years ago in Motivation
Black Business in the African Diaspora Movement
Entrepreneurs innovate in response to socioeconomic needs and despite not every entrepreneur has a social focus, their ideas do change the landscape and direction of society. They inspire not just with their ideas but with their innovative entrepreneurial mentality. This is how a young man from a very volatile inner-city community in Jamaica used his innovative ways to put himself through school at the highest level and then responded to the plight of others. Miguel ‘Steppa’ Williams an award-winning dub poet famous for his question to former President Barak Obama on his visit to Jamaica about the legalization of Marijuana. Miguel a Rastafarian by religion confesses his use of marijuana affectionately called ‘Ganja’ as a religious and health right, while always advocating for its commercial potentials to the island and many impoverished communities, even before decriminalization.
By TanYah Global3 years ago in The Swamp
Bitcoin Origins
One small boy traumatized from financial tragedy singlehandedly innovated the concept of currency like an invisible hand. Resilience is best seen in the lives of those that have faced significant challenge especially those that have been systemically marginalized. But who knew that resiliency could have given birth to the future of cryptocurrency? Jonah Abraham Blackmoor remembers seeing his grandmother screaming, “My God, my children are gone”, from a phone call. That day turned into days, weeks, and ultimately years. At that moment he became an orphan who would learn how to be a man from an even greater man, in whose shadow he would enjoy bittersweet success. His mother and father were killed in a car crash and he was now in the full-time care of his grandparents. They had all lived together so it was not a big adjustment, but the ache of no more mom and dad never faded.
By TanYah Global3 years ago in Families
RESTART RESET RECLAIM RECOMMIT
When I drove three hours to see the surgeon that had done my lumpectomy I knew before I got there what he was going to say. He was a friend of the family and so I trusted him to remove the suspicious tumor. I decided to have it removed before confirmation about what it was because my reasoning was it would have to be removed anyway. I sat in his office with my best friend who had travelled with me to do the surgery weeks before. She knew me well, my untamed strength and my hidden unspoken vulnerability, so her support meant a lot. Finally, the words were out of his mouth, “You have a very fast-growing breast cancer, which based on size and location means you have to go to the oncologist and surgeon to do a mastectomy ASAP”. The brightness of my smile greeted his words so despite knowing how intelligent I was he asked, “do you understand what I’m saying?”. This was where my wellness journey began.
By TanYah Global3 years ago in Longevity
I Die proud
AbiYah sat on the train looking through the window as she often did on her way to work but found herself fighting back tears and tried hard to hide it under her usual smile. She would look at the houses zipping by and would imagine stories about the people who lived in them based colors, architecture and landscape. Her mother taught her how to use her imagination to create stories from observing anything. Back then, this was her main activity on the train rides to and from the city with her parents. Oh, how far she had come? Her journey as a refugee in search of safety over the past six years still seem so surreal.
By TanYah Global3 years ago in Humans
