Ashoka
People driving their own solutions
“GirlTrek is a global movement for Black women to engage their bodies, spirits, community, and agency, through the centuries-old act of walking.” “Let’s walk together as we journey through a life-changing conversation with Morgan exploring the origins of GirlTrek, some of the realities that steer the lives of Black women, and some of her own learnings towards uplifting God, love, and humanity into every part of her life." “The solution for right now is to put money behind Black women because we are spiritual warriors, and this is a spiritual fight. And we better come to grips with that. We have to be able to own our intellectual property and our spiritual property (our spiritual inheritance). Our strength and spiritual wheelhouse. We have to be able to step into it, because it’s a calling. What we are doing now, women have called forth before for us to stand on the frontlines now.”
Ashoka insight
Ashoka Fellow T. Morgan Dixon has co-created a movement anchored in the spiritual, historical, and physical power of every Black woman. Walking together and taking the streets, as proposed by GirlTrek, is a way for Black women to choose health, community and movement as ways of celebrating their belonging to this world, and the United States.
In this interview, Morgan shares how Black women are self-organizing and choosing to improve, or in the words of Morgan “save”, their own lives.
How is our spiritual belonging to this world tested by the structures around us?
How can we contribute to enable everyone to belong?