Onwa Collective

a gathering place for the exploration of womb wisdom & moon logic https://linktr.ee/chioma_urama

[onwacollective]

I’ve started a collective of black and indigenous women writers sharing ancestral stories on Substack. If this is you, welcome 💗

[onwacollective]

I just spent an unreasonable amount of time updating the welcome email so if you join now you get to see it!

New letter/story loading within the next week.

[cultureandcoolthings]

Baby, Mother, and Grandmother in Brazil, photographed by David Lazar

[podencos]

Toni Morrison

[oggeminivenus]

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Things I learned visiting Europe several times (especially the Mediterranean) as a Canadian:

Leisure is so important, maybe even more so than work.

Animal fats are the key to eternal youth. Cheese and red meat = collagen!

Quality/ non processed ingredients in food is a MUST.

You need to take breaks throughout the day to reduce cortisol.

Even if you’re just going out for a latte or glass of wine, dress like an Old Money boomer because refined appearance helps with self-confidence.

Walking daily is non-negotiable, and sun is absolutely vital for not feeling and aging like shit.

Move languidly and never be in a rush. Every Med has a lifestyle considered lazy by North Americans, yet they are healthier, happier and live longer than us.

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[newguineatribalart]

Aboriginal Art Symbols and Meaning

[onwacollective]

blessed to see another day✨

[veganpsychedelephant]

[cheshmenoor]

[artsyasfuckk]

every single day 💚 B.A.S

[burdockbebe]

One thing about me? I will be romanticizing the mundane because the ordinary is in fact extraordinary

[shisasan]

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, All The Precious Words The Love Poems of Rumi, First published 1273

[auxcayes]

[eatmangoesnekkid]

I sold 112 copies of You Look Like Something Blooming this month so far, a book that is 13 years old and was raw, wild, and uncommon. Selling over 100 copies in a month of a book that’s more than a decade old is unusual in the writing world. I’m not sure why publishers aren’t reaching out to study my method, but I also know that traditional publishing doesn’t always pay attention to sustained sales from renegade, unconventional, independent books. And yes there is a method. Part of it is refusing to lose contact with my body while I create. Many people’s writing method is to “write more” or be more disciplined. My method has more to do with creating a juicy frequency--vitality and a state of being while crafting beautiful work. Staying strong, lubricated, and supple in my muscles and tissues is an actual part of my creative process (bend over, spread your thighs, and reach forward), outlined in my notebook right alongside my other tasks to do for the day. As a woman, caring for my female physiology is part of the work. So many writers, artists, and creatives become disembodied during the creative process. Hunched over. Overstimulated. Adrenalized. Detached from appetite, movement, pleasure, strength, softness, and rest. So many artists lose their bodies while making things. Some will create extraordinary work while depleted, ill, dissociated, overworked, or suffering, but there is often a hidden cost unfolding underneath all that luscious brilliance. We should question why creativity is so often expected to emerge through fracture. Creativity should not have to cost us our bodies. -India Ame'ye

[caribbeanangel]

Passa Passa (Jamaica, 2006)

[onwacollective]

21 small acts of decolonization via @ anasoumaya

[loveridden1999]

anyways remember when toni morrison said "sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it's not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."