March 14, 2019 and today’s prompt is #howilearnt #marchmeetthemaker #marchmeetthemaker2019 @joannehawker I’m posting an oil painting that I did when I was 16. I learned almost all my technical skills for painting and art from my high school teachers—Ms. Walker, Mr.Johnson, Mr.Hansen, Mr. Miller and Mr. Bede Clark. So that’s where I learned the foundations... from the teachers at #gibbshighschool #pinellascountycenterforthearts #pcca Oil on canvas, self portrait (at Saint Petersburg, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/kosharekart/p/BvALm_HA-hk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1poxci2d6tij2

Something positive this morning! After Gibbs High school in Louisville claimed it was enforcing dress code policy by demanding two black female students remove their headwraps, Liu Kwayera and some classmates organized #BlackGirlWrapWednesdays to demand change to the inherently racist dress code and embrace their African culture. 60 students showed up to school in head wraps and dashikis and have been doing so every Wednesday to spread awareness and resist the policy attempting to strip them of their culture. The children are truly the future. Surely we can follow the example they're setting in schools across the globe at our own jobs in adulthood and show up unapologetically black in every space we inhabit? People only subscribe to things like natural hair being 'unprofessional' and dashikis being 'inappropriate' and head wraps being 'distracting' because it's easy to reject what you don't understand and have been taught isn't worth even TRYING to understand. Let our culture become the norm in every space and there will be no issue. Yt people rocking dashikis, Marley twists and bamboo earrings with a smile so I know y'all betta show up black as ever with the 'waddup doe?!' Face on! #LiuKwayera #GibbsHighSchool #BlackGirlsWrapWednesday #BombardThemWithBlackness #CombatCulturalAppropriation #WeReclaimingEverythingOuchea #BlackAestheticsMatter #BlackCultureMatters #HonorTheDiaspora #BlackGirlMagic PS: if you feel like descendants of Africa and the Caribbean are too far removed from our brothers and sisters on the mother continent to proudly rock a head wrap or dashiki you really need to welcome the idea of #PanAfricanism into your life. How can you appropriate something that's a part of you?! Wake up my people. We all we got!