It was all good just a week ago. This is a picture of me on 11/27/22 – the last full day of the best trip of my life and a couple of hours before my Grandad left us earthside and joined the Ancestors. Maybe that seems like a strange thing to announce or talk about underneath a picture of me in a swimsuit… but the thing is, my trip Home, and the way that it anchored and grounded me, better prepared me to say goodbye to one of the first anchors of my Life and the most grounding force in my family. And because my Grandad was a real romantic, I’m not even surprised at the poetry of it all. I didn’t go on this trip with the intention of getting to know my Grandad better, but it certainly put me that much more viscerally in touch with the most vital time of his life. As Ghana was gaining independence, my Grandad and his peers were dreaming of their own. And he would go on to travel the world representing a newly independent Guyana when he was not much older than I am now. He made it Home before any of us and I know he’s proud so many of us have made the journey since. I know, because when I was Home I felt Free. And Beautiful. And Happy. I felt Easy and Fortified and Strong. Favoured and Loved. Ghana didn’t just remind me, it seared onto my being the unshakable knowledge of EXACTLY who I am and WHOSE I am. I have everything I need now to celebrate him fully, to proclaim his legend loudly to all who can hear, and to set out to live a life as Big and Bold and Beautiful as his own. So, y’all are gonna get this Ghana recap in DETAIL and probably a lot of stories about my family as we reflect and prepare to lay our Giant to Rest… and Both of those prospects are gifts. Trust me. Watch this space.
1. Me looking @ ’24 making sure she come correct. 2. The most Gemini video in my camera roll 😂 3. Bought this dress thinking, “She’s giving effortlessly chic Parisian girl” before I ever had plans to be in Paris this year… and then here I go. #manifestyoshit 4. Me & My Boo;) 5. My best Parisian life in a 20 sec recap 6. Me at any given moment 7. Besties at Beyoncé 8. #FB to a state of being I hope to return to again and again. 9. My newest Guardian Angel 10. Flying
1. Me looking @ ’24 making sure she come correct. 2. The most Gemini video in my camera roll 😂 3. Bought this dress thinking, “She’s giving effortlessly chic Parisian girl” before I ever had plans to be in Paris this year… and then here I go. #manifestyoshit 4. Me & My Boo;) 5. My best Parisian life in a 20 sec recap 6. Me at any given moment 7. Besties at Beyoncé 8. #FB to a state of being I hope to return to again and again. 9. My newest Guardian Angel 10. Flying
1. Me looking @ ’24 making sure she come correct. 2. The most Gemini video in my camera roll 😂 3. Bought this dress thinking, “She’s giving effortlessly chic Parisian girl” before I ever had plans to be in Paris this year… and then here I go. #manifestyoshit 4. Me & My Boo;) 5. My best Parisian life in a 20 sec recap 6. Me at any given moment 7. Besties at Beyoncé 8. #FB to a state of being I hope to return to again and again. 9. My newest Guardian Angel 10. Flying
1. Me looking @ ’24 making sure she come correct. 2. The most Gemini video in my camera roll 😂 3. Bought this dress thinking, “She’s giving effortlessly chic Parisian girl” before I ever had plans to be in Paris this year… and then here I go. #manifestyoshit 4. Me & My Boo;) 5. My best Parisian life in a 20 sec recap 6. Me at any given moment 7. Besties at Beyoncé 8. #FB to a state of being I hope to return to again and again. 9. My newest Guardian Angel 10. Flying
1. Me looking @ ’24 making sure she come correct. 2. The most Gemini video in my camera roll 😂 3. Bought this dress thinking, “She’s giving effortlessly chic Parisian girl” before I ever had plans to be in Paris this year… and then here I go. #manifestyoshit 4. Me & My Boo;) 5. My best Parisian life in a 20 sec recap 6. Me at any given moment 7. Besties at Beyoncé 8. #FB to a state of being I hope to return to again and again. 9. My newest Guardian Angel 10. Flying
7.29.23 RENAISSANCE 1. 🐝#10yearchallenge 🐝 MRS. CARTER 2013 🤝🏾 RENAISSANCE 2023 2. Stand alone fit pic bc… it was hittin’ 3. As Joy-filled as I’ve ever been 4. 🌈 showed up cause Bey doesn’t gatekeep womanhood. 5. Stadium Golden Hr while bestie waits in line. 6. FINALLY 🙌🏾🥹 7. … Finally 🥺 8. Tfw you tryna figure out if you can bend the space time continuum and live in an infinite RENAISSANCE loop
7.29.23 RENAISSANCE 1. 🐝#10yearchallenge 🐝 MRS. CARTER 2013 🤝🏾 RENAISSANCE 2023 2. Stand alone fit pic bc… it was hittin’ 3. As Joy-filled as I’ve ever been 4. 🌈 showed up cause Bey doesn’t gatekeep womanhood. 5. Stadium Golden Hr while bestie waits in line. 6. FINALLY 🙌🏾🥹 7. … Finally 🥺 8. Tfw you tryna figure out if you can bend the space time continuum and live in an infinite RENAISSANCE loop
7.29.23 RENAISSANCE 1. 🐝#10yearchallenge 🐝 MRS. CARTER 2013 🤝🏾 RENAISSANCE 2023 2. Stand alone fit pic bc… it was hittin’ 3. As Joy-filled as I’ve ever been 4. 🌈 showed up cause Bey doesn’t gatekeep womanhood. 5. Stadium Golden Hr while bestie waits in line. 6. FINALLY 🙌🏾🥹 7. … Finally 🥺 8. Tfw you tryna figure out if you can bend the space time continuum and live in an infinite RENAISSANCE loop
7.29.23 RENAISSANCE 1. 🐝#10yearchallenge 🐝 MRS. CARTER 2013 🤝🏾 RENAISSANCE 2023 2. Stand alone fit pic bc… it was hittin’ 3. As Joy-filled as I’ve ever been 4. 🌈 showed up cause Bey doesn’t gatekeep womanhood. 5. Stadium Golden Hr while bestie waits in line. 6. FINALLY 🙌🏾🥹 7. … Finally 🥺 8. Tfw you tryna figure out if you can bend the space time continuum and live in an infinite RENAISSANCE loop
7.29.23 RENAISSANCE 1. 🐝#10yearchallenge 🐝 MRS. CARTER 2013 🤝🏾 RENAISSANCE 2023 2. Stand alone fit pic bc… it was hittin’ 3. As Joy-filled as I’ve ever been 4. 🌈 showed up cause Bey doesn’t gatekeep womanhood. 5. Stadium Golden Hr while bestie waits in line. 6. FINALLY 🙌🏾🥹 7. … Finally 🥺 8. Tfw you tryna figure out if you can bend the space time continuum and live in an infinite RENAISSANCE loop
7.29.23 RENAISSANCE 1. 🐝#10yearchallenge 🐝 MRS. CARTER 2013 🤝🏾 RENAISSANCE 2023 2. Stand alone fit pic bc… it was hittin’ 3. As Joy-filled as I’ve ever been 4. 🌈 showed up cause Bey doesn’t gatekeep womanhood. 5. Stadium Golden Hr while bestie waits in line. 6. FINALLY 🙌🏾🥹 7. … Finally 🥺 8. Tfw you tryna figure out if you can bend the space time continuum and live in an infinite RENAISSANCE loop
7.29.23 RENAISSANCE 1. 🐝#10yearchallenge 🐝 MRS. CARTER 2013 🤝🏾 RENAISSANCE 2023 2. Stand alone fit pic bc… it was hittin’ 3. As Joy-filled as I’ve ever been 4. 🌈 showed up cause Bey doesn’t gatekeep womanhood. 5. Stadium Golden Hr while bestie waits in line. 6. FINALLY 🙌🏾🥹 7. … Finally 🥺 8. Tfw you tryna figure out if you can bend the space time continuum and live in an infinite RENAISSANCE loop
7.29.23 RENAISSANCE 1. 🐝#10yearchallenge 🐝 MRS. CARTER 2013 🤝🏾 RENAISSANCE 2023 2. Stand alone fit pic bc… it was hittin’ 3. As Joy-filled as I’ve ever been 4. 🌈 showed up cause Bey doesn’t gatekeep womanhood. 5. Stadium Golden Hr while bestie waits in line. 6. FINALLY 🙌🏾🥹 7. … Finally 🥺 8. Tfw you tryna figure out if you can bend the space time continuum and live in an infinite RENAISSANCE loop
Focus in on the Shadow and the Light. You see them, right? 🪽
Focus in on the Shadow and the Light. You see them, right? 🪽
Focus in on the Shadow and the Light. You see them, right? 🪽
Focus in on the Shadow and the Light. You see them, right? 🪽
Focus in on the Shadow and the Light. You see them, right? 🪽
Very much giving “Interim between a self-tape and therapy” . . . 🎶 Found by Temz #Sonologues
For O’Shae. For All the O’Shaes. For All of Us.
My Queen & My WomanKing 👑👑 What a time to be alive🙌🏾🙌🏾
Frank’s Track
When I was little, I used to imagine myself on stage singing, acting, and just generally shutting ish down…. I also used to pray to Goddess that I’d be alive at the end of the world so I could “help” save us… I am equally side eyeing that lil girl and stunned by her powers. Last Thursday, I flew with a flock of rare birds on stage at Lincoln Center. Telling a prescient story about being alive at the end of the world, when the wild fires are closing in and the birds are the only ones with a way out. I could wax lyrical about all the themes of this show, about the titans I worked with, about how making this art is one of the few things that’s made sense as I’ve watched the world I was raised for crumble bit by structural bit in front of our eyes… but I don’t know that I can do better than letting the work speak for itself. So this is the 2nd song Aria sings in Skyward: An Endling Elegy. It’s called Symphony Before Dawn. Having awoken from a dream where she could swear, she heard the birds singing her name… Aria has to make a choice. Await the fate of the wildfires closing in on all sides or take a chance on learning to fly. Link in bio to the whole livestream Composer Lyricist Genius – @truthbachman MD Extraordinaire on the keys – @jkight237 Birdies singing DOWN from left to right @ziaohzia @saulmicahnache @countercodex @ms.ujubetta Directed by wunderkind @zhailon
