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24 | Araweeloabroad.com | Law Student Brooklyn x Seattle x Mogadishu. IG: Ifahmed

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Aja Naomi King attends the “Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology” Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City.

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i'm not even gonna say rest in peace because it’s bigger than death. i never met the man (i was too nervous the one time i saw him) and i never saw him play live, regrettably. i only know the legends I’ve heard from folks and what i’ve heard and seen from his deep catalog of propellant, fearless, virtuosic work. my assessment is that he learned early on how little value to assign to someone else’s opinion of you.. an infectious sentiment that seemed soaked into his clothes, his hair, his walk, his guitar and his primal scream. he wrote my favorite song of all time, ‘when you were mine’. it’s a simple song with a simple melody that makes you wish you thought of it first, even though you never would have - a flirtatious brand of genius that feels approachable.  he was a straight black man who played his first televised set in bikini bottoms and knee high heeled boots, epic. he made me feel more comfortable with how i identify sexually simply by his display of freedom from and irreverence for obviously archaic ideas like gender conformity etc. he moved me to be more daring and intuitive with my own work by his demonstration - his denial of the prevailing model...his fight for his intellectual property - ‘slave’ written across the forehead, name changed to a symbol... an all out rebellion against exploitation. A vanguard and genius by every metric I know of who affected many in a way that will outrun oblivion for a long while. I’m proud to be a Prince fan(stan) for life.

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spring is here 🌸

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my crush everyday 💘 (at Los Angeles, California)

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throwback to the super fun @iska_dhaaf record listening party last week 💕 (at Brooklyn, New York)

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Just ended up going with the Pomp. I’m late to this wedding!!!!! :(

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weird to think this was 3 years ago. i look like a baby!! 

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI1g4dnDtao)

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Here’s a slightly blurry photo of me in Essence from the Taste of Somalia event in NYC last week. I’m cry because I was having a rare good hair day. 

http://photos.essence.com/galleries/hair-street-style-best-ny-trends#868106_868671

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we twirl on our haters #formation #ganggang (at Brooklyn Museum)

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"love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore." - Zora Neale Hurston. Happy 5 year anniversary to my beloved. I am grateful for you, alhamdulillah. Here's to continuing to move together.

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*bryson tiller voice* I'm back and I'm better (at Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn)

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winter break got me like 🌞 📷 by @princessmasilungan (at New Orleans, Louisiana)

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bae, berlin, and a new year. 🇩🇪 (at Berlin Prenzlauer Berg)

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hello from amsterdam 🇳🇱 (at Amsterdam)

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baby face & big fro circa 2012

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when you've got law school finals but you finna start the revolution too ✊🏿 (at CUNY School of Law)