Katherine Ferdinand

Designer | Dreamer

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Josephine in film

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I really don’t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn’t build my self-esteem, and it doesn’t help me grow me at all.

Queen Latifah (via roadfemme)

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Lorna Simpson, Aspen Collages 

www.lsimpsonstudio.com

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Adelaide Hall Britain’s highest-paid female entertainer, 1941

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Greeting cards for People of Colour by Denise Rawls http://ilovestrangefruit.com

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Standards of Beauty

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This time last week - Professor Gus John at African Odysseys 50 Years of Struggle - A biographical film reflecting on Prof. Gus John’s contribution to the last 5 decades of Caribbean activism in the Caribbean and UK, and where we are heading. Southbank Centre www.gusjohn.com

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"If you’ve been in a situation where you have nothing, there’s nothing much you’re afraid of" 

Tidjane Thiam, First Black FTSE 100 CEO Prudential | Credit Suisse http://gu.com/p/46fed/stw

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Home of Designer Danielle Moudaber London Photography by www.moonraystudio.com

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Ebony Collages 2014-2015 (Detail) Lorna Simpson www.lsimpsonstudio.com

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Martin Luther King - Love somebody

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Infographic from refinery.com Content from 2015 No Ceilings Report:  http://noceilings.org

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"The gate of opportunity opens but slowly for women in Sudan’s male-dominated society. For young women at a secondary school in Khartoum, the key is education."

National Geographic Magazine, March 1982, “Sudan: Crucible of Cultures”

Photo: Robert Caputo

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ALTHEA GIBSON (1927 – 2003) | CHAMPION

— First black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. — First person of color to win a Grand Slam title (French Open 1956) — Won Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals (precursor of the U.S. Open) in both 1957 and 1958 — Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 and 1958. — Winner of 11 Grand Slam tournaments, including six doubles titles. —- Inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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Installation picture from Show N Tell  - Mikhael Subotzky

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the woman

Capable of both strength and vulnerability, compassion and determination, she evolves through life with dignity, embracing both it’s blessings and hardships whilst carrying and inspiring others along her journey.

Peaceful, ambitious and loving, her serenity stems from an awareness of her power, strengths and weaknesses, and the ability to identify when and with whom to display them.

Silently united by a universal and ancestral sisterhood, she travels as an individual, a construct of those before whilst a conscious constructor of those to follow.

The nurturer, provider, seductress, confidant. She carries many titles, wears many hats, yet is governed by none of them.

She is integrity, she is purity, she is a goddess..

For her I live. I breathe. I design