What A Beautiful And Empowering Day With Our Youth!! Shout Out To The #NYSYLC For Organizing This Amazing

YES! To me intersectionality was this plus the beauty in all the different paths and histories that continue to shape my reality and my being. All the paths my body and soul have met. The reconciliation of everything I've walked. 

is the undercurrent theme of this blog. Perhaps this is a new concept. If so, here are some things to get started:

Kimberlé Crenshaw (who coined the term in 1989) on intersectionality: “I wanted to come up with an everyday metaphor that anyone could use.” (source)

"Intersectionality promotes an...

Choose empowering beliefs 

In the process of changing beliefs, choose beliefs that are empowering to your soul. A good way to know what belief will be empowering is to simply ask yourself how you feel about adding the new belief. If you feel a strong connection with a new belief, such as feelings of excitement, it will probably be a very good choice of a belief to implement. Make a conscious effort to purge all beliefs that are less than satisfying. Understand also that as you become a more conscious human being, changing your beliefs will become a much easier, more natural process.

Peace & Blessings, Our Journey to Balance 

I don’t think that people generally realise what motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups, all minorities, all non-whites. And people just simply don’t realise, just take it for granted that that’s the way people are going to be presented and these clichés are just, I mean on this network every night, well perhaps not every night, but you can see silly renditions of human behaviour, the leering Filipino houseboy, the wily Japanese, the kook or the gook, black man, stupid Indian. It just goes on and on and on. And people actually don’t realise how deeply people are injured by seeing themselves represented, not so much the adults, who are already inured to that kind of pain and pressure, but children. Indian children seeing Indians represented as savage, as ugly, as nasty, vicious, treacherous, drunken. They grow up only with a negative image of themselves and it lasts a lifetime. 

Ay, Violeta cólmanos con tu voz celestial y líbranos de lo maldito terrenal. 

Su nombre es Violeta.

Hermosura 😍

Simiatug, Ecuador

The Sexy Lie, Caroline Heldman at TEDxYouth@SanDiego

Floating Market, Tailand.

I was blessed to be part of such a wonderful and warm performance yesterday afternoon at Marjorie Eliot's apartment. Marjorie opens the door of her apartment to anyone and everyone up for some live jazz music and some love, she is so grand for keeping the Harlem Renaissance tradition. As I saw her walk around her apartment making everyone feel welcomed and comfortable I couldn't stop thinking how big and empowering she is. It was a spiritual and lively experience and I recommend visiting her parlor jazz salon on Sundays 4-6pm. 

Marjorie Eliot’s Parlor Jazz in her apartment on Flickr.

{♚} be there for them. support them. love them.

— Maya Angelou