BOSS LADY LIFE

#sunday If u know me, u know how much I love @wearedelasoul and I am devastated by the passing of @trugoy_da_dove. Y’all don’t even know the impact they had on me. They were the first concert I paid for and attended by myself as a high school student. I had the OG glow in the dark T-shirt that I wore like everyday in college. I’m so heartbroken y’all! 💚💛🖤 Rest in peace and with the daisies! 🌼☮️🕊️ #rip #riptrugoy #trugoythedove #delasoul #restinbeats #Repost @forhiphop ・・・ Trugoy The Dove. Plug Two. Dave. Rest In Daises. 🕊️ David Jude Jolicoeur (September 21, 1968 – February 12, 2023) #RIPTrugoyTheDove (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ColRK-Svo9MtECaiUpdUR-HYAxDBhAZvna2VSQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#friday A gratitude mood board post for the end of one of the maddest weeks and years in my history. I stress ate so many holiday cookies the other night, I’m inflamed and fat now, but I got out for a walk today, which I hadn’t done in months so I’m grateful for that too. I need some rest and retreat, so as much as I want to see and talk to y’all, I gotta limit it to my closest and mostest. See the rest of youz after the new year. 🙏🏾💚🌿 #fridayvibes #friyay #fridaymood #mood #moodboard #repost (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmP7wvVvij0QepBGKc_-fdZxRj-nNYcZy-86h00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#thursday Today is Latina Equal Pay Day-let’s talk about why the date moved, why the amount decreased and why the Latina workforce was hit hardest during the pandemic. Let’s also talk about the unpaid labor Latinas and women overall put in and never get a dollar for-like mothering, domestic leadership, caretaking (!) only to be met with resentment and shame when they speak up about it. My ancestors’ greatest dream is for me to stick it to the macho bs patriarchy for generations of women in my family and that’s exactly what I’m doing. ✊🏽✨🧾 #thursdaymotivation #thursdayvibes #thursdaythoughts #latinaequalpayday #equalpay #latina #latinas #latinx (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6ijlGpzk5z582IombFVwH8ZMseNkjRuJIK_40/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#monday Why didn’t y’all tell me I have bug eyes! 😂 I tried this historical AI thing on @myheritage_official and it’s hilarious. The 70s hair and Punk Rock versions are the best. 😂 #mondaymotivation #mondaymood #motivationmonday #ai #myheritage #selfie #portrait (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClywBj9p2g7CIyBQPE9LMPuW-ZVE8ccFwAautU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#saturday Thanks to all who’ve reached out w ur love 💗 and support🙏🏾 I’ve had a recent period of pummeling from the universe -My mom’s been in and out of the hospital 3 times over the past 2 weeks. Social media is oddly a healthy distraction for me. Let’s hope 1. Things get better 2. J.LO comes to her senses and doesn’t try to sing Whitney’s songs and 3. Everyone loves that corny John Secada song as much as I do. That’s all… #saturdayvibes #saturdaymorning #mood #moodboard #music #lol #repost #tiktok (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClttXeEJeBpHGs1kvVL66YYBpkCEbB_Rw8z74U0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tuesday We are the altar and the offerings. 💚🌿✨🕯️🐚🕊️🤍 #transformationtuesday #tuesdaymotivation #tuesdayvibes #transformation #ceremony #goodtimes #badtimes #Repost @theancestorproject ・・・ We weave in and out of ceremony throughout our entire lives. Between our very own births and deaths, we celebrate rites of passage, engage in personal rituals, attend integration circles, or sit in life changing ceremonies. 🕯️ 💫 No matter what sort of ceremonies we find ourselves in, once we are there, we sense we’re in the midst of some sort of tangible meaningfulness and at the feet of a mysterious invitation, and for that, our presence heightens, our hearts begin to open, and we’re more likely to recognize our role in creating our lives. 🌚 We tend to compartmentalize the spiritual nature of ceremony in our lives, squashing it into one specific corner, rather than allowing it to course the waters of our whole lives, as it naturally does. 🌸 When we begin to see the altar is all around us all of life is again meaningful, and each moment carries within it the invitation home. (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClSqpfvrNKAXmDbXATt7MlBC5VQ_LxHu-e3Bko0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#friday Please send healing energies to my road dog and amor por vida, Lola. She seems to have sprained her ankle and is in a lot of pain. 😢Monitoring her closely. I hate 2022 for realz. #fridaymood #fridayfeeling #dog #dogsofinstagram #dogs (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkjGN3qPpLtdquhM22-3KTrP-SAV7cO1m7Fvyk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wednesday Féliz Día de los Muertos! Some of my fav photos over the years. 🥹 📸 If u live in LA but haven’t been to the OG Day of the Dead celebration in LA @shg1970, do you really have any cultural street cred? 😂🤷🏽‍♀️ But seriously, support Self Help Graphics’ celebration led by artists this Saturday! 😍👊🏽 Thanks @artblender @elrafaesparza for these beautiful memories💀🌼🕯#diadelosmuertos #diademuertos #wednesdayvibes #wednesdaywisdom #waybackwednesday #wbw (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkebmsTPAtpLTnvmE_wQD6xSe1I-9u7vr101_g0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tuesday Remembering the children of Uvalde, TX on this Día de los Angelitos 🦋🌼🕯#tuesdaymotivation #tuesdayvibes #diadelosangelitos #uvaldetx #uvaldestrong #children #vote (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkbHWmdrHdTwUob2uKtIkPyklaFp07a4YCSLHg0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#monday Muitas felicidades Brasil! 🎉🇧🇷🎉 #mondaymotivation #mondaymood #brazil #brasil #latinamerica #Repost @sainthoax ・・・ Congratulations brazil 🙌🥹 (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkZVYK6PtuSrZx53AfyDBhwFPkklSgySBSMoi00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wednesday A Scorpio mood board from your favorite moon in Scorpio friend. ♏️🔪🕯🦂💀⚰️🧛🏽‍♀️🧙🏽‍♀️🦉🕸🕷 #wednesdaywisdom #wednesdaymotivation #wednesdayvibes #scorpio #witchy #witchyvibes #witchywednesday #repost @satin.saturn @erika.beach @5hahem @tammy_tekay @dancinwayne @tovahavigail @caroreyrey @gloriousbroads @houseofgangstersaysrelax @nathanbrownactor (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkMftxIvJ3KbalqxtWX6WAdfq90WATXBKG2Drw0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#monday I hate 2022. Rest In Peace Mr. Jordan. Thanks for all the laughs. #mondaymood #mondayvibes #mondayblues #restinpeace #lesliejordan #beverlyleslie #willandgrace (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkHQXNdPmSwYljII7u5lnV04uscVRBL4e2ES_I0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#friday It’s that time of the year! Día de los Muertos, Scorpio and the Fall seasons are before us. 💀🌼🦋🕯🍁 Seasonal mood board for your Friyay pleasure. First slide: #repost @coloralamexicana. The rest are credited on each vid. #fridayvibes #fridaymood #fridayfeeling #friyay (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj_JIZmvEf1LhYIMoHwrcH-OxfbgIdG08Bw__k0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#thursday I’m still here in case u were wondering! 😂✊🏽🤗 #thursdayvibes #thursdaymotivation #thursdayselfie #selfie (at East Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj8P77WJqePSjymcxZmDEE4ypxuMBb8fVS2cJQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#friday With all the events of the week, haven’t had the chance to share the generative narrative that was last weekend’s full moon 🌕 at the beautiful @risefestival with @bigblacknemesis ✨💫✨ Released a lot through the vehicles of lanterns and it was beautiful. 🤩🏮🙏🏾 Gratitude in these moments of challenge. #friyay #fbf #fridayvibes #fridaymood #risefestival #healing #wonder #desert (at Mojave Desert) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjs0GwILhL03TrLGJWKrl1vooXKQus_qf6w9AE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wednesday My statement at today’s Cultural Affairs Commission meeting. The work continues… #wednesdaymood #wednesdaymotivation #wednesdaywisdom #losangeles #togetherwerise #solidarity #art #culture #artists #culturebearers #nohate (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjoZxTavIacvnd9DM-T3kjM1bO0rXGHJE4DswY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#thursday Of course Fannie Lou Hamer was a Libra ♎️ ✨😍 Happy Bornday ✊🏽🦋 Thank u 4 ur seeds. 🌿#thursdaymotivation #justice #Repost @muchachafanzine ・・・ Happy Birthday to trailblazing freedom fighter, community organizer, & civil rights activist #FannieLouHamer who was born on this day in 1917. ⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Born to a Mississippi family of farmers, Hamer had to give up her education to begin working on a cotton plantation after her parent’s animals were poisoned by a local yt man. • Married in 1945, Hamer spent the next 18 years working as a sharecropper & plantation record keeper. Sharecropping was known as 'slavery by another name' & if Black ppl ever made moves to own land or property, they would be met with violence. •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In 1961, Hamer went into a minor surgery when a yt doctor performed a hysterectomy without her consent. This type of forced sterilization performed on Black women was so common that it was dubbed a "Mississippi appendectomy."⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This atrocity motivated Hamer to join the Civil Rights Movement where she became a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1962.⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Hamer began organizing voter registration drives. In her efforts, she was fired from her job at the plantation & was forced to move to protect herself from white supremacist violence. ⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ During one of her moves, her home was shot at 16 times. And once in jail, she was beaten to the point of permanent damage in her eye, kidney & leg. But this did not stop her. •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Challenging the all-yt Mississippi delegation, Hamer co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964 & announced her run for Congress. Though her bid was unsuccessful, her civil rights activism continued. ⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Much of Hamer’s activism centered around economic power for Black families. In 1969, she launched the Freedom Farm Cooperative to support poor Black farmers & sharecroppers who had been at the mercy of the local yt landowners.⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In March of 1977, Hamer died from breast cancer. She was buried in Ruleville, Mississippi where her tombstone is encrypted with her quote "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired". (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjYQBqmrS6ktspjR8jO11Raj0XFiqUlCH5QdfI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=