Don’t let the joy fool you. @cityharvestnyc is doing serious work!
I feel so moved and inspired to do my part to eliminate hunger on the planet. So much food is wasted and too many go without this basic human right unnecessarily.
May all beings be fed.
May all beings be sheltered.
May all beings be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May all beings know peace.
May all beings be free.
Thank you @ForeverFABMD 🫶🏾
makeup: @timmackaybeauty
hair: @chiomanvhair
dress: @muglerofficial
vintage cape: Grandma Helena 🕊️
Don’t let the joy fool you. @cityharvestnyc is doing serious work!
I feel so moved and inspired to do my part to eliminate hunger on the planet. So much food is wasted and too many go without this basic human right unnecessarily.
May all beings be fed.
May all beings be sheltered.
May all beings be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May all beings know peace.
May all beings be free.
Thank you @ForeverFABMD 🫶🏾
makeup: @timmackaybeauty
hair: @chiomanvhair
dress: @muglerofficial
vintage cape: Grandma Helena 🕊️
Don’t let the joy fool you. @cityharvestnyc is doing serious work!
I feel so moved and inspired to do my part to eliminate hunger on the planet. So much food is wasted and too many go without this basic human right unnecessarily.
May all beings be fed.
May all beings be sheltered.
May all beings be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May all beings know peace.
May all beings be free.
Thank you @ForeverFABMD 🫶🏾
makeup: @timmackaybeauty
hair: @chiomanvhair
dress: @muglerofficial
vintage cape: Grandma Helena 🕊️
Don’t let the joy fool you. @cityharvestnyc is doing serious work!
I feel so moved and inspired to do my part to eliminate hunger on the planet. So much food is wasted and too many go without this basic human right unnecessarily.
May all beings be fed.
May all beings be sheltered.
May all beings be safe from inner and outer dangers.
May all beings know peace.
May all beings be free.
Thank you @ForeverFABMD 🫶🏾
makeup: @timmackaybeauty
hair: @chiomanvhair
dress: @muglerofficial
vintage cape: Grandma Helena 🕊️
Thank you, Fashion Trust Awards Gala, for having me and congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!! 👏🏾
💛
dress: @maisonmidekor
HMU: @yayadacosta
💛
@altonmason
@yvonneorji
@jennadewan (2024 & 2006 @ “Take the Lead” premiere)
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Thank you, Fashion Trust Awards Gala, for having me and congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!! 👏🏾
💛
dress: @maisonmidekor
HMU: @yayadacosta
💛
@altonmason
@yvonneorji
@jennadewan (2024 & 2006 @ “Take the Lead” premiere)
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Thank you, Fashion Trust Awards Gala, for having me and congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!! 👏🏾
💛
dress: @maisonmidekor
HMU: @yayadacosta
💛
@altonmason
@yvonneorji
@jennadewan (2024 & 2006 @ “Take the Lead” premiere)
💫
Thank you, Fashion Trust Awards Gala, for having me and congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!! 👏🏾
💛
dress: @maisonmidekor
HMU: @yayadacosta
💛
@altonmason
@yvonneorji
@jennadewan (2024 & 2006 @ “Take the Lead” premiere)
💫
Thank you, Fashion Trust Awards Gala, for having me and congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!! 👏🏾
💛
dress: @maisonmidekor
HMU: @yayadacosta
💛
@altonmason
@yvonneorji
@jennadewan (2024 & 2006 @ “Take the Lead” premiere)
💫
Thank you, Fashion Trust Awards Gala, for having me and congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!! 👏🏾
💛
dress: @maisonmidekor
HMU: @yayadacosta
💛
@altonmason
@yvonneorji
@jennadewan (2024 & 2006 @ “Take the Lead” premiere)
💫
Thank you, Fashion Trust Awards Gala, for having me and congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!! 👏🏾
💛
dress: @maisonmidekor
HMU: @yayadacosta
💛
@altonmason
@yvonneorji
@jennadewan (2024 & 2006 @ “Take the Lead” premiere)
💫
…and I’m not just saying this because my show #TheLincolnLawyer is on Netflix, too.
#Ripley is captivating. The cinematography is gorgeous. And it made me nostalgic for the days I would visit my sister there while she was on tour with dance companies… walking the cobblestone streets, eating cacio e pepe and drinking Montepulciano d’Abruzzo…
‘s inner peace is priceless.
cute.
#OscarNight
#PreSchoolHomies
cute.
#OscarNight
#PreSchoolHomies
cute.
#OscarNight
#PreSchoolHomies
cute.
#OscarNight
#PreSchoolHomies
Oscar night with the day ones @alekseiarcher @cordellny
From Morningside Heights to Sunset Boulevard… 🌟🌟🌟
The Night Before 🎭
On this International Women’s Day, I’m giving thanks for the woman I’m becoming…
The one who thrives in sisterhood.
The one who consumes consciously.
The one who supports sustainability.
The one whose integrity is infused in every aspect of her life and in every piece in her closet.
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I was introduced to this sustainable fashion brand @y_e_s_a_e_t and fell in love.
The empowering membership community @TheWIESuite is partnering with them on this one of a kind T-shirt, to celebrate the intersection of #BlackHistoryMonth and #womenshistorymonth
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The shirt features the Ghanaian adinkra symbol “ese ne tekrema”, signifying interdependence and friendship.
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10% of proceeds go to @GirlBeHeard, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that builds young leaders, activists and changemakers.
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More of this!
Happy International Women’s Day, my people 🥳
On this International Women’s Day, I’m giving thanks for the woman I’m becoming…
The one who thrives in sisterhood.
The one who consumes consciously.
The one who supports sustainability.
The one whose integrity is infused in every aspect of her life and in every piece in her closet.
.
I was introduced to this sustainable fashion brand @y_e_s_a_e_t and fell in love.
The empowering membership community @TheWIESuite is partnering with them on this one of a kind T-shirt, to celebrate the intersection of #BlackHistoryMonth and #womenshistorymonth
.
The shirt features the Ghanaian adinkra symbol “ese ne tekrema”, signifying interdependence and friendship.
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10% of proceeds go to @GirlBeHeard, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that builds young leaders, activists and changemakers.
.
More of this!
Happy International Women’s Day, my people 🥳
(continued from last post)
In an attempt to answer this, I’m reminded of something director @ayizejamaeverett said last week at a screening of his brilliant documentary @atableofourownofficial. When discussing whiteness in healing spaces, he said, “You don’t start out kicking the neighbor’s dog. You start out kicking your own dog. So when you look at the abuse that happened to other peoples, to the land, to women… look at what happened to European women elders who knew the land, who knew about the psyche, who had oral traditions that were passed down for thousands of years. What did they do to them? They burned them. They burned women. Do you understand the pathos that takes? Of course, if you’ll do that, you’ll go to any other part of the world and do the same thing. Now, you have an opportunity to say “let’s go back there. Let’s reclaim those witches”. Yes, there are generational curses, but there is also generational strength, generational compassion, generational growth. These are all things that can be accessed.”
I’m also reminded of @empresskarenrose speaking a couple of days ago about the indigenous understanding of “soul loss”, and the ancient belief that what is broken can be healed.
I wonder then: how can the European diaspora heal ancestral trauma and retrieve the parts of their souls that had to take flight in order for such atrocities to be committed? How can they repair the harm done to themselves and to the rest of the planet?
I believe it starts with rendering reparations, returning land, restoring control of resources, recognizing responsibility, reimagining their place in a world of racial equity, listening to those melanated distant cousins whose links to indigeneity remain strong, and deep, consistent prayer for collective liberation on the planet.
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Channeled Message:
It is time for cloaks of compassion, generosity, duty, repentance…
For tapping into the truth of who we are
without the delusions of superiority passed down from those who thought only of themselves.
We return. We return. We return
to our humanity.
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📸: @thaisaquinophotography
💇🏾♀️: @chiomanvhair
🎵: The Chieftains, “The Women of Ireland”
#AncestryDecolonized
is IRISH and BRITISH.
The English and Irish lived alongside one another for many centuries. Later, as the first of about 120 colonies around the world, Ireland was where the British imperial project began in the 15th century. The British Empire went on to terrorize more territories around the world than any other colonial entity.
(IG captions are not long enough to fit the exhaustive list of countries). Britain’s arbitrary borders and mandates gave rise to many of the internal wars and conflicts that have plagued the peoples native to those lands, some of which we are obviously still seeing to this day.
Celtic culture thrived in pre-colonial Ireland and England, which evolved around 1200 B.C. Between 1450 and 1750 A.D., we underwent mass hysteria, which led to thousands of so-called witches being hanged and burned for their relationship with the Earth and their pagan rituals.
After “whiteness” was constructed in the 17th century, the Irish and every other group with “white” skin benefitted from white supremacist capitalist society, and from the continued oppression of people of color.
What does it mean to “decolonize ancestry” when one has colonizer ancestry?
What does this lineage have to offer to this work through me?
(continued in next post…)
📸: @thaisaquinophotography
💇🏾♀️: @chiomanvhair
🎵: The Chieftains, “The Women of Ireland”
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#AncestryDecolonized