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I love Mother Earth, poetry, and community 🌍
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🚨 📰 Community Update ☕️ 🌴 Today I visited the North Miami Earth Day Fair and this is exactly why people relocate to South Florida. Community events, local vendors, networking, green spaces, and neighborhoods full of life year round. I even adopted a Coreopsis leavenworthii 🌼 Your Real Estate Repertoire Expanding reach, raising standards #FYP #MiamiRealtor #RelocateToMiami #NorthMiami #movingtomiami
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From August 2021 until now I’ve been first an inquirer and then a catechumen in the Orthodox Church. Today, on the Feast of Pentecost, I have been received into full communion with the Orthodox Church. It’s been a long journey, long enough to have new zeal, wane in that zeal, become scandalized, and recommit myself, all many times over. Long enough to learn new things and change. It was fitting to be received on Pentecost, for the Spirit of Truth does not eradicate the good of my Pentecostal upbringing but elevates and sanctifies it beyond measure. Thank you to all my family and friends who came to my baptism and chrismation and thanks to all who walked with me during this entire time, whether at Duke, Durham and the parish of Holy Transfiguration, Miami, or wherever we met! Christ, the Wisdom of the Father, has called all to unity by His Spirit. Let us attend!
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A little bit of what I experienced this past month in St. Vincent and the Grenadines with the teams. There's still a lot to learn, but we must always Keep on keeping on!!! Thank you all so much 🙌
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Words feel limiting to describe the contours of the past year, the moments stuck in bed yet another day to chanting in Shohada’ Square in the Spring. My biggest regret is not documenting more - as my capacity fell I turned inwards and isolated myself from myself - sitting in silence rather than being in community, sharing, and writing. I offer this post as a visual representation that life continues even when we don’t share it. That I’ve graduated from university (yay!), moved cities (hello 🍎), and enveloped myself in loving relationships. And finally, this post is a commitment to myself to share more, everything from the rocky peaks to the smooth valleys. May the photos share a thousand words:) 1: Masked baddie in front of the Hill! It’s been a year of advocacy with AAPD and NBJC and I couldn’t be happier. 2: Panel conversation hosted by GU NAACP with yours truly speaking, it’s giving LinkedIn content but the jawline is eating 💅 3: a group photo with the Fannie Lou Hamer Fellowship Program in front of the African American History and a culture museum with our fists raised. This photo brings tears to my eyes every time I see it - these people forever changed my life, allowing me to step into disability justice work from a place of belonging, love, and community. From left to right is Levell, Amie, Qualik, yours truly, and Saphire. Kaysia was also a fellow, but not in this photo. 4: post-hug smiles with one of my favorite humans (the Akil Cole) at the Lavender Graduation gala after giving the student speech in April. 5: grad smiles with my mama:)) 6: me, masked in up-dog, co-teaching a class with Movement4Choice:) 7: a rainbow of trans folx marching in dc during the National Trans Visibility March, centering the sign Protect Trans Joy Masked baddie in front of the Hill! It’s been a year of advocacy with AAPD and NBJC and I couldn’t be happier.
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Blood Red . . . . . . @diamantefashionshow #redphotography #loveshoot #blackmodel #blackmodelphotography #blackphotographers #dcmodel #dcphotographer #dmvphotographer #valentinesday #blacklove #protectblackwomen #protectblackart #studioshoots
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From a lunch gathering on February 6, 2023 Community Aspirations: Engaging in a guided discussion and shared meal to disentangle our aspirations for our multi-generation collective. 🥘🥘🥘 Ayubowan everyone, For our Gathering this Saturday, we would like to take the time to collectively reflect and discuss what it means to be a community. This will function similar to how folks discuss community guidelines in a classroom, but instead, inspired by @ollie.henry1 Henry, we prefer the term community aspirations. Given that we are building a community within an institution that has traumatized many of us, how can we ensure we are not recreating these patterns. Kavaya has come together out of a common belonging to the Global Majority and care for Mother Nature; it is also vibrant and brings together people from all years, stories, and ancestral walks. So let’s ask: how can we co-exist with one another even when we disagree? How can we call each other in when we feel offended or hurt by another member of the community? How can we practice deep and embodied listening? Discomfort is a natural part of the world. Mother Nature herself can make you feel unfamiliar, scared, off-kilter, or spooked. Similarly, in our Gatherings as a group, through our discussions of literature, it is natural for us to experience discomfort, and some of us already have — for example, confronting relational boundaries between student, staff, and alumni, or how we choose to gather socially. Our time together on Saturday is an opportunity for us to explore similar questions and work towards answering them as the most authentic versions of ourselves. Consider our lunch the beginning of an ongoing conversation on what community feels like—and should feel like—to you. Come with an appetite, come as you are, come prepared to inhale discomfort and exhale growth, love, and understanding.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler is a North Star for Kavaya ⭐️ We gathered (with the help of the 🦉device) to reflect, discuss the book, and write in response to what it means to “know” 1. Cycle by @hasinishyamsundar 🌐 2. Reflection by @akil.cole 🍃 3. When I am Uncertain by @madhurashembekar 🌑 December 4, 2022
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Collection by: @outlyereffect Show: @diamantefashionshow Location: @georgetownuniversity Creative Director - Lily Tom Assistant Director - Mariela Vazquez Assistant Director - Ajani Jones Model Manager- Rams-Lyne Thomas Modeling Choreographer - Jasmin Gaitan Head of Marketing - Arielle Benjamin Head of Finances - Daniel Hermonstine Internal Relations Coordinator - Jazmin Clark External Relations Coordinator - Myla Taylor . . . . #fashion #style #runway #like #photography #beautiful #photooftheday #follow #instagram #picoftheday #model #dcmodel #art #beauty #hoyasaxa #dcphotographer #vaphotographer
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Collection by: @malakhitheestyli Show: @diamantefashionshow Location: @georgetownuniversity Creative Director - Lily Tom Assistant Director - Mariela Vazquez Assistant Director - Ajani Jones Model Manager- Rams-Lyne Thomas Modeling Choreographer - Jasmin Gaitan Head of Marketing - Arielle Benjamin Head of Finances - Daniel Hermonstine Internal Relations Coordinator - Jazmin Clark External Relations Coordinator - Myla Taylor . . . . #fashion #style #runway #like #photography #beautiful #photooftheday #follow #instagram #picoftheday #model #dcmodel #art #beauty #hoyasaxa #dcphotographer
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth!! 🤎🤎🤎 Are you looking for ~ A way to be support Black creators on campus? ~ A fun art activity? 🎨 ~ Some warm drinks? ☕ Then come to Red Square on tomorrow, February 2nd, from 10am-12pm to learn more about the Grounding retreat and enjoy some related activities! See you soon 🙏🏽 #grounding #blackhistorymonth #art #collegelife
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Where Are They Now? : Swipe to see what some of our alumni have been up to since the 2023 program! Also, be sure to get your applications in soon, the deadline is NEXT WEEK!!
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