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for noey ~

~ missing you greatly - wishing you health and peace and sweetness <333 and i hope one day to see you well and living your best magically creative life 💞💫💜 you remain an inspiration and a light in my mind - i think of you often and fondly, and i’m beaming a big ol hug your way; i hope you receive the love, wherever you are ~ ✨

Davina Batiste by @pixel-imaginarium // “the witch on sweetpea hill”

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✨❤️🖤💚IT'S LIT❤️🖤💚✨

Happy Kwanzaa, Simblr Fam!!✨ We “lit the Kinara candles” each day of the holiday with an image of the Le Coeur Noir BC cast in settings representative of the Nguzo Saba of the day! Check the recap ~ .UMOJA | KUJICHAGULIA | UJIMA | UJAMAA | NIA | KUUMBA | IMANI.

I hoped to put each of these principles into practice by creating something with and for this lil corner of the internet called Black Simblr ~ 💛 Thank you for the absolute inspiration that your mere presence brings to this community, and thank you for continuing to take up space with your self expression, your conversation, your art, your point of view✨ This place is only enriched by our being here and our being who we are, and I’m grateful every day that I sign in to this hellsite that you are here to share in the shenanigans with~ 🫶🏾🫶🏾 HAPPY NEW YEAR~!!

~special thanks to the creators of our lovely LCNBC cast, in order of appearance : @rruhos7 @yngblkarawak @foxsimthings @xldkx @magnoliapromenadegalleria @pixel-imaginarium/“the witch on sweetpea hill” and @randomsimmy~

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UJIMA (Collective Work and Responsibility)

To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.

Akoma ntoaso - the Adinkra symbol of shared effort and obligation

FEATURING tayo (by @foxsimthings)

second day of kwanzaa | fourth day of kwanzaa

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UJAMAA (Cooperative Economics)

To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Two interlocking half circles - the Nsibidi symbol of togetherness and family

FEATURING otto (by @xldkx)

third day of kwanzaa | fifth day of kwanzaa

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UMOJA (Unity)

To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

Dagi knot - a Pan African symbol of unity found in several African cultures, i.e., Yoruba, Hausa, Bushongo, etc.

FEATURING andres & manu (by @rruhos7)

. | second day of kwanzaa

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NIA (Purpose)

To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

The heiroglyph Nefer - Ancient Egyptian symbol of beauty and good

FEATURING camilla (by @magnoliapromenadegalleria)

fourth day of kwanzaa | sixth day of kwanzaa

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KUUMBA (Creativity)

To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

The seven vibrations of divine creation - the Dogon symbol of creativity

FEATURING davina (by @pixel-imaginarium / noey)

fifth day of kwanzaa | seventh day of kwanzaa

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KUJICHAGULIA (Self-Determination)

To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

Ahenwa - The Akan throne, symbol of national identity, cultural groundedness and rightful governance

FEATURING gini (by @yngblkarawak)

first day of kwanzaa | third day of kwanzaa