#indocaribbean

[piononostalgia]

Michel Jean Cazabon

« East Indian Family »

Watercolour on paper, 1886

[jalebi-o-shir]

😭😭😭 I mean. I’m not wrong.

[lanapatelxoxo]

Look down at your body 👁 Whisper ✨ There is no home like you 🧡 Thank you - @rupikaur_ Feeling myself in "#bandhani #babe" set from @namaslaycollective by my good sis @akashaonabeat I just want to take a moment to Thank you @akashaonabeat for taking a chance and working with me. Ioce your brand and all that you stand for. My fellow #gujarati babe you are epic! I'm so honored to model your #fashion time and time again. I'm always down when I get that call and I love your passion with #diversity in models, #ethicalfashion and how you source your materials, how you spread love and unity amongst everyone and how amazing you are as a person. Thank you for allowing this #trans #body to model your gorgeous garments. As a #transmodel as a #dougla in the #southasian fashion industry and as a #brownskin woman I have faced so much rejection for not having conventional looks for the standard "North Indian" "Gori" "#Eurocentric" that most of these designers and brands seek in models. So many times have I been asked to come in as hair and makeup and not offered modeling opportunities because I'm Trans, black and or darker skinned. This industry is not as inclusive, accepting or diverse as I would like but it's people like you @akashaonabeat who are shaping the way we view models and #equity in fashion and beauty. Thank you ❤️ #desifashion #indian #indocaribbean #yardie #jamaica #trinidad #punjabi #brownskingirls #model #transgender #transgirl #selflove #selfie #indianjewellery #indianjewelry #lanapatel (at Fashion Avenue) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTJZfhqg54U/?utm_medium=tumblr

[havatabanca]

[mixdgrlproblems]

@empressjaibella: "I’m #AfricanAmerican with Afro #IndoCaribbean ancestry. I’m mixed with #NativeAmerican (#Choctaw, #Mayan, and #Lumbee) #Korean #Irish #English #Norwegian #Spanish and #French!" 🏴🇺🇸🇮🇳🇰🇷🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇴🇪🇸🇫🇷 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Check out my How To: Be Featured Story for a Shoutout! ☝️ Following me is required! Want to be featured faster?? Follow and dm my personal page @donnisbutterfly and LET ME KNOW THERE YOU SUBMITTED HERE AS WELL! 💋 #mixedgirl #beautytuesday https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ_pn4ll_5X/?utm_medium=tumblr

[brownsugarsamurai]

Showing my face.

[coolie-willie-blog]

This is Stacy Singh, a 26 year-old mother of 2 young children. Originally from #Guyana, she was murdered by her husband on the first day of this year in Queens. After he murdered her, he committed suicide.

As a survivor, Stacy’s murder, and the violence other #IndoCaribbean womxn face hits too close to home. We all failed Stacy, and other victims of #genderbasedviolence , but I especially blame myself. When I was younger, I avoided the men in commumity bc of their #toxicmasculinity . I thought distancing myself and staying silent was the best option. However, I realized that this doesn’t stop the #cycleofviolence , and that other communities and environments faced this epidemic.

As I got older and understood what I went thru. I blamed myself, a child, for not doing anything when womxn in my life faced violence, be it physical or emotional. However, thru support in different forms (friends/therapy/peer-counseling) Im learning to heal. I’ve realized the violence is not going stop unless we all work together to end it. @jahajee_sisters is doing great work to empower womxn in the community to fight back against the violence. However men need to do their part. Understand how our everyday actions and words lends itself to the violence. How #patriarchy is ingrained in our community, and why it’s a destructive system.

Men also need to discuss the violence they’ve faced. I come from a family where men have been abused for generations, which is not atypical. We need to acknowledge we’ve faced trauma, understand how our patterns of behavior are related this trauma, and learn to heal from the trauma. Because we don’t have the space, or don’t develop the space, to discuss our pain, we continue the cycle of violence.

If we want to stop the violence, we all have to work together. We have to be proactive in engaging the community regularly. We couldn’t prevent Stacy’s murder, but we can prevent others.

[lexiaesthetically]

Wanted to put this picture on here since I haven't posted myself in a while