ZABULI’S 2021 GIRL GET UP MOVEMENT: THE BIGGEST EVENT FOR WOMEN YET

Cinderella Sanyu’s Boom Party concert last year, 2020 was only rivaled by what was supposed to be a little known, small and intimate gathering of women, called #GirlGetUp.

Twitter trends of that week and that day, however, showed that this event came in second, after the Boom party concert, taking the organizers by complete surprise. That was not the plan. If anything, it had been curated in such a way that it would not be so popular as to overwhelm the event’s intimacy.

The message was to be different. It could not ride on the wave of popularity and popular talking points. Relationships, Men and Marriage were not mentioned even once. So why did the event creep up the Twitter trends so insidiously?

It appears that the absence of these popular talking points, ironically, got more people talking; particularly people who ordinarily would never add their voice into the much too crowded conversation space of men, sex, marriage and relationships.

Beneath these conversations, like the organizers had determined, were deeper underlying issues that could not be addressed in the realm of oversimplification, sensationalism and production lights.

Issues of self-esteem, identity, trauma, abandonment, rejection, sexual, mental and emotional abuse could not possibly be addressed with popular, generalized ideologies, rigid inflexible religion and impractical idealistic, theories.

These real issues, needed real solutions and only tested and tried solutions could be used. Only people with lived experiences and who had eventually overcome these, would be the sharers. It proved to be a real need and that the organizers had got it just right. The vision was to build a movement, and the formula had been proven at it’s first inception. Twitter took the #GirlGetUp hashtag and ran with it.

So, who started it?

Gospel artiste, Zabuli is the brain child of this movement that exists to empower women to live their best, most impactful lives, starting with healing from the inside out. Having started out herself as broken and struggling right from childhood into her early twenties, Zabuli has still managed to somehow get herself out of a vicious cycle of self-destruction and hopelessness to build herself into a woman with a brand and a name worth speaking of.

This story of overcoming, breaking cycles, and having control over ones life in all aspects; relationally, financially and career-wise is the very real need that is the heart of this movement.

A woman who is empowered as an individual has great control over her financial, relational and work choices. This movement exists to dig into the root issues and get into the heart of the matter.

This is a real need for many women, young and old. The need to overcome and develop the confidence within themselves to fearlessly live the lives they know they want deep inside of their hearts. This movement exists to validate women in their hopes, and strengthen them in their resolve to know better, do better and be better. It exists to indicate that this really is possible, and it is not another motivation engagement.

This movement is called #GirlGetUp and returns this year in March, in coincidence with the days surrounding the International Women’s Day.

The Zabuli Magazine

Like was the case last year, The Zabuli Magazine will be featuring the stories of phenomenal women of who have overcome extraordinary odds to become strong women. Stories from last year will be featured on this blog in the days running up to the event in March.

For more information, Follow Zabuli on her page here.

Also, the ever elusive Dipak Moses is profiled in a previous blog post. You can check him out here

Kind regards,

Anna Grace