How & Why?

(Un)Learning individual, doing identity work and healing... Existing while awaiting revelations...

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the mantra

I am compassionate without feeling the responsibility to fix others as I cannot fix or change anyone but me.

I am aware of my connection to the divine while also knowing pleasure and goodness are my birthright.

I am not bound to anything that does not serve my highest and best me. With that being said, I want for others what I want for myself. Pain and suffering are not one of those things.

I deserve joy and goodness, grace and ease.

http://blavity.com/career-activism-may-harmful-health/

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only in mythology does woman come from a man’s body: Eve from Adam’s rib, Athena from Zeus’ head. in reality, only women can create new life. Freud was wrong about penis envy. it is men who discover they have a penis instead of a womb, it is men who discover when they learn how babies are made just how disposable they are. their womb envy is so great they subjugated us to control us, they accuse us of having “wandering wombs” when we do not obey them, they invent these myths of women coming from their bodies.

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As an Aboriginal person who grew up unable to speak my language I feel I have been denied a core part of my identity, and it is a deep wound. The first time I said something in my language in public, “Ngaya Ngamitjimitong” – I belong to the Ngamitji clan – I broke down and wept in front of 400 people. Speaking my language was a visceral experience that left me weeping for something I couldn’t articulate. A loss so deep it was breathtaking. I have seen many Aboriginal people have the same reaction as they begin the journey back to speaking in their own language. Without our languages many Aboriginal people talk of being bereft, of wanting to speak language more than having food or housing. Language loss is so core to our identity as peoples it has had a profound effect on our social and emotional wellbeing, affecting our health and our capacity to thrive economically, socially and educationally.

Dr Jakelin Troy, Ngarigu (Ngamitji)

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He too real for these fake kids

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Ermagerd.

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Sugar Cane Alley dir. Euzhan Palcy (1983)

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When your white friend hasn’t greeted your African father the proper way lmaoooooo

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African parents are so fake

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Lmao Init

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[favourli]

I was robbed and I didn’t call the police. Here’s why

I can’t condone their actions, and growing up in a tough place doesn’t give you an excuse to commit crime. But I understand where these kids were coming from

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what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them? Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too

[33v0]

look at this shit

They radiate peace

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scientific phenomenon 

[odinsblog]

I was once a very pro-Hillary Clinton supporter. But I’m finding that at this stage of life and this stage of her politics, I can no longer be a Hillary Clinton supporter in the name of feminism. There are certain things that I don’t want to co-sign in the name of feminism that I think are militarist, imperialist, white supremacist, whether they are conducted by women or men.

bell Hooks 

[thefader]

#GENF: WIZKID IS GETTING THE GLOBAL EMBRACE HE DESERVES. 

PHOTOS BY DAN WILTON FOR THE FADER.

[byebyethinspo]

glamorize going to bed early, like, 8pm early

instead of making high stress levels a competition, brag about feeling whole and at peace.

make it cool as hell to take 2pm naps and go on mindful walks by yourself.

talk about mental health and normalize visits to counselors or support systems

teach kids that being different is beautiful and that it’s healthy to love what makes us who we are.

make #selflove and #selfcare the most common hashtags

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When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way. This state of inner nonresistance opens you to the unconditioned consciousness that is infinitely greater than the human mind. This vast intelligence can then express itself through you and assist you, both from within and from without. That is why, by letting go of inner resistance, you often find circumstances change for the better.

Eckhart Tolle (via lighthearted-science)

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From illiterate child bride to famous Nigerian novelist

The story of Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, the woman giving Muslim Nigerian women a voice in fiction.

The bookshelves in her modest two-bedroom bungalow display all nine of her novels - well-known titles, some of which are even listed in the secondary school curriculum. “These days, I’m fortunate: When people see my name on something, they want to read it,” Yakubu says, leaning back in the couch in her sitting room and rearranging her white chador. Her popularity did not come overnight. After she published her first novel in 1987, religious leaders would preach against her, and she would receive threatening letters denouncing her and her children, which she described as “the most hurtful thing you can do to a mother”.

She was taken out of primary school at the age of 12 to marry a man in his 40s whom she had never met before. At first, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu enjoyed the presents she received at the wedding and the golden ornaments decorating her new home, but she had no idea what marriage was about.

Today, that illiterate girl who didn’t even know how to boil water and who, one year and eight months after the wedding, was finally sent back to her father’s house in disgrace, has become one of northern Nigeria’s most well-known writers and the first female Hausa-language author to be translated into English. “If you know where I came from, you’ll realise how much I have fought,” says the 57-year-old author of nine novels.

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A piece I did for Dazed celebrating International Woman’s Day!

You can purchase my prints at : http://www.ayqakhan.com/