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Itās our anniversary *somebody play Tony! Toni! Tone!*
This week we celebrated ZORAās 2nd birthday and we salute all of you ā the readers and the creators ā who believe in and support ZORA every step of the way. To borrow a phrase from Senior Editor Jolie Doggett: We wouldnāt be two without you. And thatās the unfettered truth.

Our long distance friendship deepened in the last year as Covid-19 took over the world, and we all gathered online to read, share and affirm our individual yet collective experiences. With community comes comfort, and we touched and agreed upon ways to combat sexism and racism while also bolstering our beauty and our mental health.
ā”ļø Read: āCelebrating Two Years of ZORAā
We shared secrets about our parents, our passions and our beliefs. We agreed with Nikki Giovanni that Black women are extraordinary yet we disagreed on the actions of the Gorilla Glue Girl. We laughed together, chuckling at interviews with Samantha Irby and The Astronomy Club. We learned together, taking in the advice of artists like Viola Davis, Issa Rae and Janelle Monae. And we are all the better for it.
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ZORA is proud to tell and share your stories. It is an enormous privilege to preserve our point of view for all future generations. Thanks again for playing your part and if you have a favorite ZORA story, please drop us a line and tell us what it is and why. zora@medium.com
Take care,
ā Adrienne Samuels Gibbs
Director, Multicultural Content, Medium and Editor, ZORA
āļø Mars in Leo Brings Opportunity or Oppositionāļø

Today Mars, the planet of action, passion, and heat enters Leo. If āHot Girl Summerā needed an official start date, this is it. To find out how this will impact your days ahead, check out this weekās ZORAscope.
⨠The Best of Us āØ
ICYMI, here are some of our favorite recent ZORA stories
4 Reasons Why I Can No Longer Center My Life Around Whiteness
The GRE Causes More Harm Than Good to Women of Color
Naomi Osakaās āNoā Is Our Summer Master Class in Self-Care
Gut Check: Do Your Actions and Work Align With Your Values?
Did Greed Derail a Handful of Tulsa Massacre Commemoration Events?
Turn in Your Bonnet Badges, Respectability Police
š£ļø The Last Word š£ļø
āThose that donāt got it, canāt show it. Those that got it, canāt hide it.ā ā Zora Neale Hurston
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