ZAHRA SWANZY

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🐆🐅🦓 Channelling Shania Twain in my #KhangaKimono feat. custom flare trouser 🐆🐅🦓 Shot by the Bb @massamassa87 😈 (at Leopard Lounge)

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Khanga Kimono Phase 2 NOW LIVE! Who wore it best? Me or him 🤔😝 #KhangaKimono ALSO if you buying the set holler at me for discount code 🌴👘🇹🇿 www.swanzy.biz (at Japan)

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there is no suppression without eventual uprising. public silence unleashes individual voices. where there is death, there must be life. remind me. #myexistenceizresistance

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With growth comes wings. Wings to help us rise above and have a birds eye view. When situations may not be good for us, we got to trust that instinct. We may not see it but you can feel it. Let’s not engage with toxic energy because it does stain the soul. Save yourself first my butterfly and fly fly away 🦋 #myexistenceizresistance (at WINGS)

[zahraswanzy]

When I turned 30 I set myself 3 goals - personal growth, spiritual expansion and human development. 2 years on and I think I'm doing pretty good. The personal growth one took digging so deep into myself, breaking down barriers that I didn't even know I had up. I can now say I'm in a happier place where I've learnt how to be love, receive love and let love in 🖤🎁👌🏿😍🙋🏿

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Honouring the passing of Afeni Shakur with her words that resonate with the recent police brutality of unarmed, unaggressive, 15yr old, A grade student #JORDANEDWARDS #WeMustProtectTheBabies 🖤

[zahraswanzy]

The ones who notice the storms in your eyes, the silence in your voice and the heaviness in your heart are the ones you need to let in.

[zahraswanzy]

'We Apologise For The Delay To Your Journey' on view @ Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas until June. Part of @bwaforblm . Such an honour to be listed in this visual mapping of people whose work means more visibility for Black British women and non-binary femme artists 🖤 (at Project Row Houses)

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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” My fave #MLK words. Very relevant ❤

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One year on and still no answers. Beaten by @metpolice_uk and died in Holloway prison. The whole system is guilty #SarahReed #sayhername #blacklivesmatter

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Me watching BM get dragged for their misogynoir. I get people have preferences to what they like but I CANNOT stand people shitting on black women.

[micdotcom]

here’s to a better 2017 (x)

[zahraswanzy]

We cycle through so many emotional states in one day. That is the feminine, rolling like a dark wave from moment to moment. Today I am loving the one (ME) who feels bloated and uncomfortable, emotional about Haiti (if you wanna work to effectively help lmk) feeling overwhelmed and slightly creatively blocked. But because I know this can and will shift within minutes or hours I don't need to make myself feel shitty about it in the mean time. 
💛 Self-care Sunday 💛

[zahraswanzy]

I AM GROWING 🌻 WE ARE GROWING. Sometimes I feel I'm at breaking point and I used to think it was a bad thing. Now I see it as growth. When you feel at breaking point it means that you've drawn a line in the sand. It means you are sick of feeling that way, tired of the same old storylines, the same old outcomes, obsessions and pain. It means you are ready to push for more. It means you are ready to change. It means you want your power back. It means you are ready to get real about who you are and what you want. Work with your discomfort and the old ways of being that stop you from having more peace, more fun and more happiness. Don't intellectualize it, talk yourself out of it or tuck it somewhere you don't have to deal with it. Let it fuel you. Let it dismantle the foundation of "I'm not enough. I'm not allowed. I can't have that". Tell the truth. Be honest with yourself. Ask for help. And always, always, always, LOVE the fuck out of yourself while you do it 💖 SELF CARE SUNDAYZ WITH SWANZY 💖

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💫 #SelfcareSundayz 💫

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💫 #SelfcareSundayz via Wu Hsin💫