Category: life etc.
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Michelle Obama- The Woman. The Power. The Grace.
2008. What a year. What a time to have witnessed. The world was captivated by the newly elected President of The United States. A Black man. The first ever in a country that was built on the backs of his enslaved ancestors, residing in a house built by slaves. We couldn’t quite comprehend the meaning of…
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Black. Lives. Matter- Our Darkest Hour Yet
If this is the the time you tell me all lives matter- don’t. For until Black Lives Matter, your all lives matter chant is ignorant and counter productive because until you understand that all lives will only matter when Black Lives do, we cannot have a conversation. Black people are being murdered by men in law enforcement,…
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War & Peace- The Politics of Apologising
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been to places that have affected me beyond the normal holiday feeling. In Nuremberg I visited Dokumentationszentrum, a museum that documents the details of the rise of the nazi party and hitler’s ascension to power. The museum is in the southern district of Nuremberg, on the remains of the…
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Grey Hair- Age Old Wisdom
A fact of life for most, if we are lucky. We never give it much thought until we wake up one day and it dawns on us. I started seeing grey hairs on my head when I was about the age of sixteen but at the time it was exciting- we all couldn’t wait to grow…
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LEMONADE- Much More Than “Jay Z’s 100th Problem.”
“Well Jay Z has found his 100th problem” I read this tweet and pretty much lay on the floor dying from laughter for a good few minutes. It is the perfect tweet to describe Beyonce’s epic thrill, and visual album that dropped over the weekend, which puts Jay on blast about his infidelity. I think we…
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That Nina Movie.
Somewhere in heaven Nina Simone is having deep conversations with whomever cares to listen about this movie. I bet she is not happy about it either. I am not happy about it, a lot of us are not happy about it but here we are and Hollywood is at it again. A lot of outrage has…
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I’m A Barbie Girl
Last week Sunday, I saw a little white girl playing with a black raggedy doll in church, it was her doll and she was very fond of it. It didn’t seem unusual to her or her parents, she is all of one and a half, but for a time it stuck with me because I’ve never…
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GRACE
Grace Coddington is stepping down as Creative Director of Vogue, but will assume the role of Creative Director at Large for the magazine whilst pursuing other opportunities outside the magazine. After more than 25 years at the magazine; the ying to Anna Wintour’s yang. She wants to do other things. Grace is without question the greatest living…
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A Death In The Family
My dad passed away recently, hence the almost silence on the blog and social media, it was sudden but a good passing. A good passing but no less sad, because someone I love and was close to is gone. There is nothing like a death to bring the family close or closer. My dad was…