Fully Alive

I will not die an  unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. fully alive - dawna markova

Exhale

Freshness at the top of my brown temple.
OUF!
It did take me two years to finally decide to cut off my dreadlocks. 
I was scared. 
I know I am beautiful 
and I wasn't scared of not liking my face without the hair that covers the frame. 
I was scared of missing my hair. 
Missing the volume and the texture and the work... oh no. 
No more.
I feel free, lighter and really sexy. 

Frobruary

J'aime beaucoup mes cheveux naturels. 

Ils sont crépus, certes 

mais cette sensation de sentir ce qui qualifie d'où je vient, 

ce qui est essentiellement moi, 

est hors pair. 

Je les aime parce que chaque frisette 

est différente dans ce tas de folie 

et de racine

je n'y voit que de la beauté.

Kenleybel

pour 

Frobruary

Combien de temps avant que je ne retrouve mon afro?

Miss Representation

Ways of Expression

“If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.” 

My friend Mafé told me this a couple of years ago.

Choice is power

Beautiful noise

Art feeds.
Art heals.

We came talented.
We came as healers.

Do music.
Make art.

Use your space.
Use your voice.

I yearn to hear you.
I want to know you.