Layla’s Letters

Weekly letters on Leadership & Liberation

(Re)claiming my space
Layla Saad Layla Saad

(Re)claiming my space

It took me until I was 32 years old to claim that I was a writer. Today I know it's what I'm here to do.

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How to Become A Good Ancestor
Layla Saad Layla Saad

How to Become A Good Ancestor

One night, completely at my wit’s end with lack of clarity, I grabbed a notebook. I had spent the last three years focused on what I did not want. I hadn’t taken a moment to tune in, listen, and dream of what I did want.

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Boundaries for change-making
Layla Saad Layla Saad

Boundaries for change-making

Being a changemaker is hard. Being a changemaker while trying to balance all of the other areas of our lives can feel almost impossible.

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This is what we forget about doing the work
Layla Saad Layla Saad

This is what we forget about doing the work

A couple of years ago, while preparing to teach antiracism classes, I sent out a survey to my audience with the following question: What are your 3 biggest questions on practicing anti-racism?

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What does sustainable change-making look like?
Layla Saad Layla Saad

What does sustainable change-making look like?

I was in the early days of my work as an antiracist writer and educator, and I had come to the most depressing conclusion: In order for a single person with white privilege to ‘get it’, scores of Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Colour (BIPOC) had to be harmed (sometimes unintentionally, some intentionally) in the process.

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