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EVERYONE HAS A STORY.

Femme Cabal seeks to empower women by providing them with a voice and a safe space to share. Expression through written word can provide catharsis to heal and empower. The stories you will find here in our blog are from real people in your community who have decided to share their experiences.

If you have a story you would like to share, please fill out the form on this page. All stories are kept anonymous, unless we are asked to sign it with a name.

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I Achieved Confluence: Being on the Receiving End of a Mat Leave Notice

Imagine this: you tell your boss you're going on mat leave, and they are TOTALLY COOL ABOUT IT. Whaaaat?!!? (jk we hope this happens often)

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A Partnership for the (Teen)Ages: Femme Cabal and AGENTS

Femme Cabal was honoured to take part in the Alberta Girls Engineering & Technology Summit (AGENTS) as a community sponsor. This annual event has high-school...

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Staying at Home After 10 Years of Not...

This is a story about me being a recent domestic engineer to two elementary school aged children and how this stage of family life seems MUCH (unreasonably m...

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I’m Quitting My Job to Raise My Kids…. Now what?!

Maternity leave. By the time it’s half over, you find yourself playing the pro’s and con’s game of whether or not to return to work. And if you do return, th...

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I Got Fired Coming Off Mat Leave

Here is a story about how a career-minded ambitious 20-something fell prey to the maternity leave conundrum. I was never one of those people that wanted to h...