from the editor
Welcome to the second women shaping design issue. The last time I introduced this issue, I prefaced it by saying that the objective was to start conversations around the intersections of gender identity, design and power – and to keep having them long after august. Well, very recently, I was having one of those conversations with another incredible woman, Boity – a self-made, one-woman empire in her own right – about the very thing that this issue is about: the machinations of power, who shares it and who holds onto it – guarding it – tightly. She told me how, even as a successful woman – and a woman of colour – having the power to speak freely, openly and to be heard was far from a given. That every moment…