Taejiana Zhane
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Artist, Writer, Poet, Empath, HSP, Plant lover, Healing Enthusiast, 🏳️🌈
aries ☀️, scorpio 🌙, aquarius ⬆️
and here you are living
despite it all
- rupi kaur
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A New Era For Black Women
Growing up, there wasn’t much representation of black women in a lot of spaces. Not in the shows I watched. Not in the books I read. This led to me feeling unseen in ways that I couldn’t comprehend as a child. But in music… in music they were present. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of my mom and I singing at the top of our lungs to our favorite songs. Music was a staple in our household. My mother loves music and singing; it's the main thing that we have in common. I grew up listening to a lot of oldies, thanks to my mom. It’s still one of my favorite types of music to listen to. I have so many memories of my mom blasting tunes in the living room while she danced and twirled. I always enjoyed watching her because it was when she seemed the happiest. She would often pull me out of my seat to dance with her. Music by these women lifted our spirits like nothing else. We struggled a lot throughout my childhood because of how poor we were, but we always had our music and our voices. Nothing could take those things away from us. And hearing black women, just like my mother sing about their lives with such passion and love despite what they had been through was undoubtedly inspiring. It was then that I had my first glance at the magic that black women held within. I fell in love with music because of black women.
By Taejiana Zhane5 years ago in Beat
Making Magick Wherever You Are
Things that live on my dresser. My personal space has always been somewhere so sacred to me. As an introvert with a generalized anxiety disorder and Complex PTSD, it is essential. I have always needed a place to escape to when I became overwhelmed. I have not always had that, though. There were many times growing up that my family and I did not have a home. That’s not what this is about though.
By Taejiana Zhane5 years ago in Longevity
