2019 began with 5 million women creating a human wall in India to protest sexism, and Cyntoia Brown in America will be freed on August 8th from her life sentence for killing her rapist, and #feminism is becoming more and more widely understood for what it is and why we need it, and I am shedding skins that no longer serve me and learning truths that empower and grow me into a better version of myself, and the world is still heavy and still misted by toxic air but suddenly I am 21 again, sitting in my Uni dorm room, full of naive optimism, with a belly full of fire ready to fight against injustices everywhere and hope seems like a realistic, as well as a necessary, option and I am nostalgic for the innocence I once had but emboldened by all that I now know and after months of what has felt like emotional hibernation, this quote I wrote back then has meaning again. And so I am sharing it in the hopes (intended) that it holds meaning for you too and that this will be the year that the oceans of change rise up to counter all that is not in line with harmony and hope. 🌺 🌺 🌺 🌺 #hopeoverfear #2019isouryear #equality #feminism #justice #hope #attemptingadulthood #attemptingartistry 🌺 (en London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWe2bvhTsj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zh0jjxyufjip