How to take a car rapide: […] feel free to sit down and wiggle your way onto the bench. Everyone will move. And anyways, they would all do the same if the roles were reversed!
The book you judge by its cover: My book, my judgment, my burden. […] misunderstood because of its skin.
The Story of the Nurse: ‘Every day a Nurse says “this too shall pass” not because he or she is the bravest but it builds our courage and strengthens our bond.”
Intentional Gospel: “I wanted books [with] dynamic characters they could relate with; characters who would then become constant affirmation-whispering companions during their internal monologues for years to come.”
Call Me Dami: “Strive high for yourselves and so other women can see you and know they belong too. Defy the mainstream media. You’re more than just a wife or a mother, and your skin does not limit you.”
Mind your head: “I remember an ex’s mother advising me that long hair was good because the men liked it. As if what I did with my hair was anybody’s business.”
Copy Cats: “We usually hear about representation in the work place or in the media, but representation of healthy relationships starts at home where our children are watching, learning and storing for later use.”
I remember when my mother and uncle tried to convince me that having a gap tooth was beautiful. At the time I dismissed it as them pushing an obviously incorrect opinion just because they had gap teeth themselves.
Tribute to my grand mother who would have been laid to rest today…if not for social distancing.
I’ve become very aware of how mainstream media has shaped my biases. Having grown up on a steady drip of western media feed, I’ve only now started to unravel its deep rooted and especially gnarly roots. The supremacy of whiteness/western-ness in programming which reinforced over and again that what is normal, intelligent, powerful and ‘beautiful’,…
Nwaami 