#loveliberation

The beautiful Black Dolls created by Farrah @farrahbk and her family where finally received by the young children in Gonaives, Haiti. They had a Xmas party in July because of the turmoil that has taken place recently. With faith, perseverance and dedication the path opens. Thank you Schemilda for the love and generosity in your heart. This is what family value looks like. Lakou spirit. #lakou #indigenouswisdom #ancestralhealing #loveisrevolutionary #loveliberation #decolonizeyourmind #disruptthenarrative #gonaiveshaiti #healhaiti #andhowarethechildren #dominicanslovehaitians #haitiandominican #dominicanhaitian (at Gonaïves, Haiti) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jyHColFl-/?igshid=1daj39bf2s42m

When Black Women Prevail, We All Prevail-Urban Bush Women SLI 2019 #disruptthenarrative #dismantlethepatriarchy #whitesupremacyisterrorism #loveliberation #loveisrevolutionary #blackconsciousness #blacklikeme #decolonizeyourmind #antiracisteducation #dominicanslovehaitians (at Love is a Rainbow) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0I0OeDleGt/?igshid=3qi839vn902o

In the Dominican Republic where some people insist there is racial harmony we have media representation that says otherwise. Negritud(e) is not honored nor respected. Please make sure to donate to our Black Doll Project, as we continue to collect Black Dolls to uplift and affirm our children’s blackness and combatting xenophobia in DR, Haiti, PR. More info coming soon. Image repost from @bad_dominicana #disruptthenarrative #dismantlethepatriarchy #whitesupremacyisterrorism #loveisrevolutionary #loveliberation #blackconsciousness #blacklikeme #blackdollproject (at Love is a Rainbow) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzs2LQ9F39E/?igshid=18fbauc6o9boj

Health reminders. #decolonizeyourmind #socialmediatimeout #healyourheart #nevercompare #loveliberation #loveisrevolutionary #dominicanslovehaitians https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqlKZclyho/?igshid=1oijk7e4zwq51

Disney sure is getting lots of free publicity and attention. #disruptthenarrative #dismantlethepatriarchy #whitesupremacyisterrorism #blacklivesblackstoriesmatter #loveliberation #blackconsciousness #ancestralhealing https://www.instagram.com/p/BzlG_g2l-__/?igshid=a4sjdhqlxszm

We really don’t want to do this. Our identity thinks this is a bad idea. For a whole month since we posted the book cover we have been in a heated debate. Seriously going around in circles in our mind and body. It’s not a good idea to someone who outwardly presents as an extrovert but secretly is an introvert. But whatever! We gonna mind our business and our business is to decolonize our minds and bodies. We feel the message is more important than our fear. So starting July 8th, Monday we gonna have live conversations with you. Join us at 8pm. The first book we deep diving into is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, we gonna talk about our own revelations in reading the book and ask you to discover something inside of yourself. As colonized people the work is to unravel the pains created by this racialized system for true liberation. So bring a journal to write your thoughts down and let’s discover freedom together. #decolonizeyourmind #decolonizeyourbody #disruptthenarrative #dismantlethepatriarchy #loveliberation #loveisrevolutionary #mindyourbusiness #watchyourmouth #tellmesomethinggood #instagramlive #dominicanslovehaitians https://www.instagram.com/p/BzgPwfTFNe4/?igshid=1w75fwjvmcdqb

#teenstakethemet was a success! Yay!! We had students develop their own poems affirming themselves. Which we never do enough of! It’s so fascinating engaging with people during their process and seeing how we can get stuck in “perfectionism” and “comparisons” but it was good to see so many of them work through their fears and hesitation. Let us all continue to work through unraveling the narratives that limit us so we can all be free. Swipe to see the Wall and some of the teens that stopped by our Praise Poems and Performance. In our favorite area of The Metropolitan Museum: Africana, Oceania and The Americas. @metteens #ancestralwisdom #clarivelruiz #loveliberation #praisepoetry https://www.instagram.com/p/ByK26FClpD1/?igshid=8phry3fmew9g

When you realize that the path of healing is actually speaking up and letting your community know you have been suffering. Secrets fester and silence equals death. When we meet Harim Maristany last week during the opening of Mapping Resistance: The Young Lord in El Barrio one gold piece of wisdom he said which we have heard before but it really resonated this time, opened up a chamber to discover what we had put away but not really dealt with. He said “not all people who look like us are for us.” And for someone who is highly distrusting this doesn’t land well, and at the same time, yesterday we really got inside of community and asking for something we needed that we can trust ourselves, we can trust our ancestors, we can trust Orisha, we can trust all our spiritual guides who look out for us. And so people may not be trustworthy but we have acquired the skills and have the mechanisms around us to be guided. We pray for all of our continuous elevations. We prayer for peace. Love is not always kindness-sometime it comes as a sword to tear you apart so you can see your own true worth with your own eyes. Asé o. #loveisrevolutionary #disruptthenarrative #ancestralwisdom #loveconsciousness #loveliberation #loveisasword #dominicanhaitian #haitiandominican https://www.instagram.com/p/BxqPE1ohNWW/?igshid=1axqgotlt25e