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Caption : The thoughts coming through after reading this… The necessity to never forget. We are not alone. We are never alone. And so many of us are apart that if even just a few come together that bit of the world can be changed. Powerfully changed. And the more of us who gather multiply that change. There is no gathering too small. There is no ripple too gentle. Look within and know the power you hold, and that with another, and another, and another… the whole becomes so much greater than the sum of its incredible parts. I saw this demonstrated this week. My heart filled to bursting. My mind swam oceans. My spirit is flying. I’ll share more about it soon. 🙏🤍 In the meantime many thanks to the magical @urbanjukejoint9 — one of my treasured, early soul expanders — for posting this simple but profound prompt. Image description: White background. Black handwritten lettering reads — “But what can I do, I am just one person” said 7 billion people..”
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Caption : I’m grateful to have been introduced to the thoughtful, observant eye and kind heart of @maas.art. Thank you, Justin. I love this. 🤍🖤 [Image Description: Black and white drawing of me, shoulders up, looking directly forward. My hair is pinned into an asymmetrical wavy faux bob, I’m wearing thick metallic hoops, and a dark halter-type neckline.]
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Caption : Happy National Siblings Day @fitztheworldcitizen. You were born late so I get to post late. 🥰 Thanks for making me an auntie to this precious little bunny. [Image description: Me in a denim jacket, resting my head on my niece Anaya who’s wearing a cream colored hood with floppy bunny ears, resting her head on my brother Nasan’s head. Nasan is holding Anaya’s body steady and smiling, and I’m squeezing her cute feeeeet. We are all looking off camera.]
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Caption : Happy Naw-Rúz 🤍🎉 Today we celebrate the beginning of a new year on the Bahá’í calendar, following our month of fasting. Last year it was me, a string of lights, and a little lettuce plant I was growing in my apartment. This year I’m grateful to be with my family — especially after a year of such loss and turmoil for almost everyone on Earth. Though we’re all in different time zones, with different faiths, backgrounds, beliefs, strengths and weaknesses, we’re sharing the human experience. No matter how hard we fight it, we are one human family, inextricably linked. I believe that to the depths of my soul. So in that spirit I pray, though it may not be everyone’s new year, that the spirit of this new year for us brings some light to all. So from my family… to my family 🌍 🌎 🌏 (yep, you too), Happy New Year. May it bring you joy and love, healing and growth. May it bring more learning and understanding, justice and safety and peace. May we all be renewed. With love, Parisa [Image Description: My family — brother, mom, sister-in-love and niece — and me posing in my parents’ kitchen, wearing T-shirts with messages like “World Citizen” and “The earth is one country and mankind its citizens.” My purple T-shirt has a nine-pointed star made of interlocked hands with different shades of skin. My squishy 13 month old niece is wearing a green world citizen T-shirt and smiling with her arms out.]
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Caption : Oh my goodness I’m so grateful! The last week and a half since my birthday (22 July) has been so rich. I spent the day itself driving through the desert on a solo cross country journey. This was my second birthday in a row in the desert, a place this water baby has come to appreciate so deeply. Following the example of friends who claim an entire month to celebrate their own births I decided to just stay open, navigating the habitual awkwardness I’ve had around celebrating mine at all. I decided to receive, to associate this time with an extra openness to joy and discovery — and what do you know, they showed up! 🤩 This is me in hot hot hot Nevada, in front of the ice-cold, beautiful Colorado river, with Arizona on the other side. I soooo recommend driving across a country — especially if you could use a reminder of the vastness of this planet, that in Truth we belong to all of it and that it belongs to all of us. I didn’t forget the lines that have been drawn, or the mindfulness required to navigate our many misunderstandings and shortcomings. I just got a chance to remember the bigger stuff more. What a blessing!!! Many thanks to all who sent messages last week. I wish I could have responded to them all individually. Please know how much they and you have been appreciated. I’m learning it’s always a good time to receive. It’s always the right time to feel joy. Nature is the definition of generosity and a reminder of our place in existence. There’s beauty even in dry expanses. Spirit is the ever-present, constant companion. It’s possible to not only step into the future with open arms, but also to gain new understandings of the past with an open heart. And of course, that magic abounds. Here’s to another year of life! Thank you for being a part of mine! Image description: A selfie of me smiling, curly brown hair out and blowing in the breeze, wearing a black halter top with white polka dots. Behind me, the green-blue Colorado River rippling, a bit of green foliage, white sand and a blue sky with whisky white clouds.
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Caption : Tbt to shooting with my long-time friend @raziwilsonphotography. She’s just moved back to LA so folks looking to shoot for work, play or healing (Razi uses therapeutic approaches for those looking to incorporate photography into their own healing work) check her out. Image description: A professional photo of me, from the waist up. I’m looking into camera. My hair is curly and I’m wearing a yellow lace top under a gray patterned blazer, with a small gold and pyrite necklace.
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Caption : Why choose one? Trent Crimm: The Independent Woman Jackie Collins. Happy Halloween, yall! 🎃😈🤓 Image Description: 1. Me with big gray-streaked frizzy hair, Trent Crimm glasses, Jackie Collins makeup, gray jacket and black button-down either of them could wear, silver dangling earrings, red lanyard that reads “Independent”, a notebook and pen. 2. Trent Crimm (of The Independen and Ted Lasso fame) in glasses, blazer, button down and tie. His face framed by luscious gray hair. 3. Jackie Collins, novelist extraordinaire, big frizzy delicious 80’s hair, loads of dramatic 80’s makeup, leopard print blazer/choker/earrings, staring down the camera like she’s about to pounce. 4. Me continuing to feel myself but this time with a bit of a pearl and diamond(ish) choker peeking out at my neckline)
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Caption : Why choose one? Trent Crimm: The Independent Woman Jackie Collins. Happy Halloween, yall! 🎃😈🤓 Image Description: 1. Me with big gray-streaked frizzy hair, Trent Crimm glasses, Jackie Collins makeup, gray jacket and black button-down either of them could wear, silver dangling earrings, red lanyard that reads “Independent”, a notebook and pen. 2. Trent Crimm (of The Independen and Ted Lasso fame) in glasses, blazer, button down and tie. His face framed by luscious gray hair. 3. Jackie Collins, novelist extraordinaire, big frizzy delicious 80’s hair, loads of dramatic 80’s makeup, leopard print blazer/choker/earrings, staring down the camera like she’s about to pounce. 4. Me continuing to feel myself but this time with a bit of a pearl and diamond(ish) choker peeking out at my neckline)
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Caption : Why choose one? Trent Crimm: The Independent Woman Jackie Collins. Happy Halloween, yall! 🎃😈🤓 Image Description: 1. Me with big gray-streaked frizzy hair, Trent Crimm glasses, Jackie Collins makeup, gray jacket and black button-down either of them could wear, silver dangling earrings, red lanyard that reads “Independent”, a notebook and pen. 2. Trent Crimm (of The Independen and Ted Lasso fame) in glasses, blazer, button down and tie. His face framed by luscious gray hair. 3. Jackie Collins, novelist extraordinaire, big frizzy delicious 80’s hair, loads of dramatic 80’s makeup, leopard print blazer/choker/earrings, staring down the camera like she’s about to pounce. 4. Me continuing to feel myself but this time with a bit of a pearl and diamond(ish) choker peeking out at my neckline)
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Caption : Why choose one? Trent Crimm: The Independent Woman Jackie Collins. Happy Halloween, yall! 🎃😈🤓 Image Description: 1. Me with big gray-streaked frizzy hair, Trent Crimm glasses, Jackie Collins makeup, gray jacket and black button-down either of them could wear, silver dangling earrings, red lanyard that reads “Independent”, a notebook and pen. 2. Trent Crimm (of The Independen and Ted Lasso fame) in glasses, blazer, button down and tie. His face framed by luscious gray hair. 3. Jackie Collins, novelist extraordinaire, big frizzy delicious 80’s hair, loads of dramatic 80’s makeup, leopard print blazer/choker/earrings, staring down the camera like she’s about to pounce. 4. Me continuing to feel myself but this time with a bit of a pearl and diamond(ish) choker peeking out at my neckline)
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Caption : Underrated mental health tool and cognitive booster: PLAY I’m serious! Google “science of play” and you’ll find references to studies proving all these amazing benefits that I inconveniently and constantly forget about! 🤡🎉 I’m working (hehe) on bringing more play into my life — whether in my occupation or in my free time. I know this might sound odd in the face of stereotypes about our work, but for a lot of artists (and scientists, and teachers, and healers, and entrepreneurs and and and), real free time can feel scarce. The side gigs a lot of us have are no joke (😜), but the fact that we’re always ‘on’, absorbing, contemplating, reassessing, optimizing, conceptualizing, balancing creation with paying the bills — even working with our literal dreams to see what they have to tell us — can mean we miss opportunities to be UN-intentional, silly, wild, naughty, messy and in the moment. Sharing this moment when I just let myself enjoy the absurdity of life. Because I’m writing about it I’m now remembering the beautiful bowling ball I recently received and how I need to schedule time to go bowl with it because it’s so much fun. 🎳💫 In the meantime I’m going to figure out how to feel playful while prepping a chicken for dinner…. Ok someone’s getting on my table tonight in a bikini and it’s not gonna be me!👙🍗 I’m feeling it! 🥳 My unsolicited advice for today: GO PLAY! Even if it’s the smallest thing! Even if it’s at work! Even if it’s doing something weird with a chicken… um……. Have fun! 🥳 XOXO, P. Image description: Slide 1: Close up of me, laughing big time toward camera. I have light brown skin, dark brown eyes and dark brown curly hair. I’m wearing my favorite white t shirt that is at this point basically Swiss cheese. Slide 2: A seasoned, roasted spatchcock chicken in a roasting pan. The chicken is wearing a bikini made of fresh cilantro. There’s another cilantro bikini underneath it but after baking it looked more like what a bikini might be covering so I refreshed it. 😜
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Caption : Underrated mental health tool and cognitive booster: PLAY I’m serious! Google “science of play” and you’ll find references to studies proving all these amazing benefits that I inconveniently and constantly forget about! 🤡🎉 I’m working (hehe) on bringing more play into my life — whether in my occupation or in my free time. I know this might sound odd in the face of stereotypes about our work, but for a lot of artists (and scientists, and teachers, and healers, and entrepreneurs and and and), real free time can feel scarce. The side gigs a lot of us have are no joke (😜), but the fact that we’re always ‘on’, absorbing, contemplating, reassessing, optimizing, conceptualizing, balancing creation with paying the bills — even working with our literal dreams to see what they have to tell us — can mean we miss opportunities to be UN-intentional, silly, wild, naughty, messy and in the moment. Sharing this moment when I just let myself enjoy the absurdity of life. Because I’m writing about it I’m now remembering the beautiful bowling ball I recently received and how I need to schedule time to go bowl with it because it’s so much fun. 🎳💫 In the meantime I’m going to figure out how to feel playful while prepping a chicken for dinner…. Ok someone’s getting on my table tonight in a bikini and it’s not gonna be me!👙🍗 I’m feeling it! 🥳 My unsolicited advice for today: GO PLAY! Even if it’s the smallest thing! Even if it’s at work! Even if it’s doing something weird with a chicken… um……. Have fun! 🥳 XOXO, P. Image description: Slide 1: Close up of me, laughing big time toward camera. I have light brown skin, dark brown eyes and dark brown curly hair. I’m wearing my favorite white t shirt that is at this point basically Swiss cheese. Slide 2: A seasoned, roasted spatchcock chicken in a roasting pan. The chicken is wearing a bikini made of fresh cilantro. There’s another cilantro bikini underneath it but after baking it looked more like what a bikini might be covering so I refreshed it. 😜
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Caption : More LA memories. Exploring shadow and light with @raziwilsonphotography 🤍🖤🩶 Post description: Three slides – black and white photos of me. A close up of me looking to camera, a medium shot of me walking, and a medium shot of me leaning back on a wall. In all I wear the same white dress and my hair is curly and shoulder length. *Reposting correct edits
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Caption : More LA memories. Exploring shadow and light with @raziwilsonphotography 🤍🖤🩶 Post description: Three slides – black and white photos of me. A close up of me looking to camera, a medium shot of me walking, and a medium shot of me leaning back on a wall. In all I wear the same white dress and my hair is curly and shoulder length. *Reposting correct edits
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Caption : More LA memories. Exploring shadow and light with @raziwilsonphotography 🤍🖤🩶 Post description: Three slides – black and white photos of me. A close up of me looking to camera, a medium shot of me walking, and a medium shot of me leaning back on a wall. In all I wear the same white dress and my hair is curly and shoulder length. *Reposting correct edits
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Caption : It’s such an honor to be the subject of a piece of art. Thank you @maas.art for this beautiful drawing and for seeing me with such kindness and generosity. 🙏🤍 Image description: A close-up pencil drawing of me. My hair is out and I’m looking directly at the viewer. Repost from @maas.art • Here’s my new drawing of @parisafitzhenley. A supremely beautiful human, Parisa is always a joy to draw… and that HAIR. Omg. Wanted to make this about her beautiful features but once again got caught up in her hair. I would say I spent 2/3 of the time on this piece drawing her hair but “erasing” would be more appropriate because the technique is: Lay down value, blend, erase. Lay down more value, blend, erase. And repeat. And repeat. It becomes this sort of zen movement that is very enjoyable but also somewhat makes you go cross eyed at times! Well worth it though, to try to capture this wonderful lady. I did this drawing in graphite and white charcoal on toned strathmore paper. Its 11” x 14” #art #drawing #sketch #parisahenley #parisafitzhenley #hair #drawinghair #beauty #fineart #fanart #maasart #pencildrawing #canadianart
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Caption : Prayers up please for the journey of this soul and the soothing of the hearts of his loved ones. I met Craig muMs Grant @sirmumsila on the set of Luke Cage. I was somewhat just getting started and he was coming from a place of deep and varied experience. One of the big gifts of my experience on the show was the connection we had. He was so warm and gentle, curious and humble. I felt safe and comfortable and encouraged with him. We kept in touch a little after my time there and I’d have been so happy to see him anywhere again. I’m grateful for the memory he left with me of a beautiful man with beautiful talent and a beautiful heart. Praying that the next stage for him is one filled with light and love and the return of all the good things he gave in this life, and then some. RIP 🤍 I hate this…. [Image Description: a closeup of Craig, a man with dark brown skin and close cropped hair, a bit of salt and pepper in his short goatee, wearing a red T-shirt. He looks toward camera with grounded intensity.]
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Caption : Daddy, Daddy, Daddy…. 20 years… how? And really what is time? You’re gone and you’re with me, all at once. I’ve said it before, I’d take back the worst day if that’s all I could get, and I’d live in that day smiling to myself, knowing it was worth everything. More than everything. But I can’t really remember the worst days anymore. My heart and mind are filled with the good and sweet and beautiful. I hope that’s what it’s like where you are too. I love you. I hope you’re still dancing.
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Caption : Daddy, Daddy, Daddy…. 20 years… how? And really what is time? You’re gone and you’re with me, all at once. I’ve said it before, I’d take back the worst day if that’s all I could get, and I’d live in that day smiling to myself, knowing it was worth everything. More than everything. But I can’t really remember the worst days anymore. My heart and mind are filled with the good and sweet and beautiful. I hope that’s what it’s like where you are too. I love you. I hope you’re still dancing.
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Caption : Daddy, Daddy, Daddy…. 20 years… how? And really what is time? You’re gone and you’re with me, all at once. I’ve said it before, I’d take back the worst day if that’s all I could get, and I’d live in that day smiling to myself, knowing it was worth everything. More than everything. But I can’t really remember the worst days anymore. My heart and mind are filled with the good and sweet and beautiful. I hope that’s what it’s like where you are too. I love you. I hope you’re still dancing.
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Caption : I was surprised at how much this thread resonated with folks. The same for the video clip and post I shared yesterday (full length will be coming after this weekend). The last 24 hours I’ve had people reach out to me privately as well as publicly with harrowing experiences — and I thought I already knew a lot of folks heavily impacted by COVID! 😰 PLEASE if you are in a position of responsibility or influence, whether in a professional, community, social justice, political, religious, spiritual, educational or healthcare facility, or in hosting private events — PLEASE update your communications OR stand by your word. Perhaps the majority of folks don’t mind either way, but the minority matters right?? And many have been so broken down by all this we will just not say anything anymore and/or avoid you altogether. Not going to discuss whether or not you should have COVID mitigation on this post. But advertising a safer place then not ensuring it is not just a bad look, it’s dangerous. Your immune-compromised, disabled, elderly, and generally COVID-cautious friends deserve better. —— Image description in comments.
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Caption : Thinking so much about the intersection of racism and migration today as we witness their complexities in the face of war. I’m now feeling even more grateful to take part in this IG Live with @tahirihjustice — a secular organization based on Baha’i principles, dedicated to supporting immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence. They do this with inclusivity around gender expression and identity, and by advocating “both for individual immigrant survivors and to change the systems that are complicit in the conditions of their oppression.” Their certainty that anti-racism is integral to this work is so powerful and gives me so much hope. This also happens to be during the yearly celebratory period Bahá’ís call Ayyam-i-Ha, when we give gifts, and enjoy fellowship and acts of charity and service. To honor that Jennifer and I will be making cookies together on the live. So please join us to listen, to ask questions, make or decorate your own cookies, or pray for two people who don’t do a lot of lives whose attempt at baking for one could provide some comic relief. 🤓🍪🔥🙏 We look forward to sharing it all with you. Love, Parisa Image description: A screenshot of a Twitter post from @tahirihjustice. The photo is a closeup of me, a woman with medium brown skin and dark brown eyes and hair, wearing green. I’m looking into camera. Text: “We hope you will tune into our Instagram Live with actress @ParisaFH and Tahirih staff member Jennifer Jackson for a special discussion about Black history, Black Baháʼís, and Tahirih’s commitment to anti-racism. #BlackHistoryMonth Monday, February 28, 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT”
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Caption : I was surprised at how much this thread resonated with folks. The same for the video clip and post I shared yesterday (full length will be coming after this weekend). The last 24 hours I’ve had people reach out to me privately as well as publicly with harrowing experiences — and I thought I already knew a lot of folks heavily impacted by COVID! 😰 PLEASE if you are in a position of responsibility or influence, whether in a professional, community, social justice, political, religious, spiritual, educational or healthcare facility, or in hosting private events — PLEASE update your communications OR stand by your word. Perhaps the majority of folks don’t mind either way, but the minority matters right?? And many have been so broken down by all this we will just not say anything anymore and/or avoid you altogether. Not going to discuss whether or not you should have COVID mitigation on this post. But advertising a safer place then not ensuring it is not just a bad look, it’s dangerous. Your immune-compromised, disabled, elderly, and generally COVID-cautious friends deserve better. —— Image description in comments.
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Caption : I was surprised at how much this thread resonated with folks. The same for the video clip and post I shared yesterday (full length will be coming after this weekend). The last 24 hours I’ve had people reach out to me privately as well as publicly with harrowing experiences — and I thought I already knew a lot of folks heavily impacted by COVID! 😰 PLEASE if you are in a position of responsibility or influence, whether in a professional, community, social justice, political, religious, spiritual, educational or healthcare facility, or in hosting private events — PLEASE update your communications OR stand by your word. Perhaps the majority of folks don’t mind either way, but the minority matters right?? And many have been so broken down by all this we will just not say anything anymore and/or avoid you altogether. Not going to discuss whether or not you should have COVID mitigation on this post. But advertising a safer place then not ensuring it is not just a bad look, it’s dangerous. Your immune-compromised, disabled, elderly, and generally COVID-cautious friends deserve better. —— Image description in comments.
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Caption : I was surprised at how much this thread resonated with folks. The same for the video clip and post I shared yesterday (full length will be coming after this weekend). The last 24 hours I’ve had people reach out to me privately as well as publicly with harrowing experiences — and I thought I already knew a lot of folks heavily impacted by COVID! 😰 PLEASE if you are in a position of responsibility or influence, whether in a professional, community, social justice, political, religious, spiritual, educational or healthcare facility, or in hosting private events — PLEASE update your communications OR stand by your word. Perhaps the majority of folks don’t mind either way, but the minority matters right?? And many have been so broken down by all this we will just not say anything anymore and/or avoid you altogether. Not going to discuss whether or not you should have COVID mitigation on this post. But advertising a safer place then not ensuring it is not just a bad look, it’s dangerous. Your immune-compromised, disabled, elderly, and generally COVID-cautious friends deserve better. —— Image description in comments.
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Caption : This last year I’ve learned so much more from peers than I did in school. I feel so much richer for it, & so much more connected with this vast human family of ours. There’s tons we don’t know about each other, about ourselves. Imagine what’s possible when we know more, when we care more, when we deepen our unity. Everything around us is asking us to lean into each other, to support and be supported. It’s time. Very grateful to @teachandtransform for posting this important history lesson. 🔽 REPOST from @teachandtransform • “👏🏽 ANTI ASIAN RACISM IS NOT A “NEW” PHENOMENON 👏🏽 SWIPE TO LEARN MORE 👏🏽 . Obviously my break was shorter than expected. My fear is that like when stories go viral, there’s attention for a media cycle and then everyone moves on. So since folx are recognizing anti Asian racism, I want to grab this opportunity to educate y’all. . In my experience, both Asians and non Asians are pretty unaware of Asian American history. I was too up until college when I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible. I’m STILL learning. The thing is, our history is barely taught. You might hear about Chinese Exclusion or the internment of Japanese citizens, but that’s usually it. In order to combat racism, ignorance, and disrupt the model minority myth, we need to understand our history. . As my friend and colleague @bobkim411 talks about in his @smithsonianapa webinar on the legal landscape, Asians have been involved in some monumental Supreme Court cases. Our identities have been used to define whiteness and who isn’t white, as well as pitting us against Black folx and other communities of color. . If you are just starting to expand your antiracism to include Asians, research these Supreme Court cases and also check my highlights on APAHM or API to learn more.” via @teachandtransform [Image Description: text-heavy slides w/photos detailing unjust court cases against Asian people in the US starting in the 1800s. For full text descriptions please DM me. — Parisa]
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Caption : This last year I’ve learned so much more from peers than I did in school. I feel so much richer for it, & so much more connected with this vast human family of ours. There’s tons we don’t know about each other, about ourselves. Imagine what’s possible when we know more, when we care more, when we deepen our unity. Everything around us is asking us to lean into each other, to support and be supported. It’s time. Very grateful to @teachandtransform for posting this important history lesson. 🔽 REPOST from @teachandtransform • “👏🏽 ANTI ASIAN RACISM IS NOT A “NEW” PHENOMENON 👏🏽 SWIPE TO LEARN MORE 👏🏽 . Obviously my break was shorter than expected. My fear is that like when stories go viral, there’s attention for a media cycle and then everyone moves on. So since folx are recognizing anti Asian racism, I want to grab this opportunity to educate y’all. . In my experience, both Asians and non Asians are pretty unaware of Asian American history. I was too up until college when I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible. I’m STILL learning. The thing is, our history is barely taught. You might hear about Chinese Exclusion or the internment of Japanese citizens, but that’s usually it. In order to combat racism, ignorance, and disrupt the model minority myth, we need to understand our history. . As my friend and colleague @bobkim411 talks about in his @smithsonianapa webinar on the legal landscape, Asians have been involved in some monumental Supreme Court cases. Our identities have been used to define whiteness and who isn’t white, as well as pitting us against Black folx and other communities of color. . If you are just starting to expand your antiracism to include Asians, research these Supreme Court cases and also check my highlights on APAHM or API to learn more.” via @teachandtransform [Image Description: text-heavy slides w/photos detailing unjust court cases against Asian people in the US starting in the 1800s. For full text descriptions please DM me. — Parisa]
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Caption : This last year I’ve learned so much more from peers than I did in school. I feel so much richer for it, & so much more connected with this vast human family of ours. There’s tons we don’t know about each other, about ourselves. Imagine what’s possible when we know more, when we care more, when we deepen our unity. Everything around us is asking us to lean into each other, to support and be supported. It’s time. Very grateful to @teachandtransform for posting this important history lesson. 🔽 REPOST from @teachandtransform • “👏🏽 ANTI ASIAN RACISM IS NOT A “NEW” PHENOMENON 👏🏽 SWIPE TO LEARN MORE 👏🏽 . Obviously my break was shorter than expected. My fear is that like when stories go viral, there’s attention for a media cycle and then everyone moves on. So since folx are recognizing anti Asian racism, I want to grab this opportunity to educate y’all. . In my experience, both Asians and non Asians are pretty unaware of Asian American history. I was too up until college when I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible. I’m STILL learning. The thing is, our history is barely taught. You might hear about Chinese Exclusion or the internment of Japanese citizens, but that’s usually it. In order to combat racism, ignorance, and disrupt the model minority myth, we need to understand our history. . As my friend and colleague @bobkim411 talks about in his @smithsonianapa webinar on the legal landscape, Asians have been involved in some monumental Supreme Court cases. Our identities have been used to define whiteness and who isn’t white, as well as pitting us against Black folx and other communities of color. . If you are just starting to expand your antiracism to include Asians, research these Supreme Court cases and also check my highlights on APAHM or API to learn more.” via @teachandtransform [Image Description: text-heavy slides w/photos detailing unjust court cases against Asian people in the US starting in the 1800s. For full text descriptions please DM me. — Parisa]
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Caption : This last year I’ve learned so much more from peers than I did in school. I feel so much richer for it, & so much more connected with this vast human family of ours. There’s tons we don’t know about each other, about ourselves. Imagine what’s possible when we know more, when we care more, when we deepen our unity. Everything around us is asking us to lean into each other, to support and be supported. It’s time. Very grateful to @teachandtransform for posting this important history lesson. 🔽 REPOST from @teachandtransform • “👏🏽 ANTI ASIAN RACISM IS NOT A “NEW” PHENOMENON 👏🏽 SWIPE TO LEARN MORE 👏🏽 . Obviously my break was shorter than expected. My fear is that like when stories go viral, there’s attention for a media cycle and then everyone moves on. So since folx are recognizing anti Asian racism, I want to grab this opportunity to educate y’all. . In my experience, both Asians and non Asians are pretty unaware of Asian American history. I was too up until college when I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible. I’m STILL learning. The thing is, our history is barely taught. You might hear about Chinese Exclusion or the internment of Japanese citizens, but that’s usually it. In order to combat racism, ignorance, and disrupt the model minority myth, we need to understand our history. . As my friend and colleague @bobkim411 talks about in his @smithsonianapa webinar on the legal landscape, Asians have been involved in some monumental Supreme Court cases. Our identities have been used to define whiteness and who isn’t white, as well as pitting us against Black folx and other communities of color. . If you are just starting to expand your antiracism to include Asians, research these Supreme Court cases and also check my highlights on APAHM or API to learn more.” via @teachandtransform [Image Description: text-heavy slides w/photos detailing unjust court cases against Asian people in the US starting in the 1800s. For full text descriptions please DM me. — Parisa]
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Caption : This last year I’ve learned so much more from peers than I did in school. I feel so much richer for it, & so much more connected with this vast human family of ours. There’s tons we don’t know about each other, about ourselves. Imagine what’s possible when we know more, when we care more, when we deepen our unity. Everything around us is asking us to lean into each other, to support and be supported. It’s time. Very grateful to @teachandtransform for posting this important history lesson. 🔽 REPOST from @teachandtransform • “👏🏽 ANTI ASIAN RACISM IS NOT A “NEW” PHENOMENON 👏🏽 SWIPE TO LEARN MORE 👏🏽 . Obviously my break was shorter than expected. My fear is that like when stories go viral, there’s attention for a media cycle and then everyone moves on. So since folx are recognizing anti Asian racism, I want to grab this opportunity to educate y’all. . In my experience, both Asians and non Asians are pretty unaware of Asian American history. I was too up until college when I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible. I’m STILL learning. The thing is, our history is barely taught. You might hear about Chinese Exclusion or the internment of Japanese citizens, but that’s usually it. In order to combat racism, ignorance, and disrupt the model minority myth, we need to understand our history. . As my friend and colleague @bobkim411 talks about in his @smithsonianapa webinar on the legal landscape, Asians have been involved in some monumental Supreme Court cases. Our identities have been used to define whiteness and who isn’t white, as well as pitting us against Black folx and other communities of color. . If you are just starting to expand your antiracism to include Asians, research these Supreme Court cases and also check my highlights on APAHM or API to learn more.” via @teachandtransform [Image Description: text-heavy slides w/photos detailing unjust court cases against Asian people in the US starting in the 1800s. For full text descriptions please DM me. — Parisa]
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Caption : This last year I’ve learned so much more from peers than I did in school. I feel so much richer for it, & so much more connected with this vast human family of ours. There’s tons we don’t know about each other, about ourselves. Imagine what’s possible when we know more, when we care more, when we deepen our unity. Everything around us is asking us to lean into each other, to support and be supported. It’s time. Very grateful to @teachandtransform for posting this important history lesson. 🔽 REPOST from @teachandtransform • “👏🏽 ANTI ASIAN RACISM IS NOT A “NEW” PHENOMENON 👏🏽 SWIPE TO LEARN MORE 👏🏽 . Obviously my break was shorter than expected. My fear is that like when stories go viral, there’s attention for a media cycle and then everyone moves on. So since folx are recognizing anti Asian racism, I want to grab this opportunity to educate y’all. . In my experience, both Asians and non Asians are pretty unaware of Asian American history. I was too up until college when I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible. I’m STILL learning. The thing is, our history is barely taught. You might hear about Chinese Exclusion or the internment of Japanese citizens, but that’s usually it. In order to combat racism, ignorance, and disrupt the model minority myth, we need to understand our history. . As my friend and colleague @bobkim411 talks about in his @smithsonianapa webinar on the legal landscape, Asians have been involved in some monumental Supreme Court cases. Our identities have been used to define whiteness and who isn’t white, as well as pitting us against Black folx and other communities of color. . If you are just starting to expand your antiracism to include Asians, research these Supreme Court cases and also check my highlights on APAHM or API to learn more.” via @teachandtransform [Image Description: text-heavy slides w/photos detailing unjust court cases against Asian people in the US starting in the 1800s. For full text descriptions please DM me. — Parisa]
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Caption : This last year I’ve learned so much more from peers than I did in school. I feel so much richer for it, & so much more connected with this vast human family of ours. There’s tons we don’t know about each other, about ourselves. Imagine what’s possible when we know more, when we care more, when we deepen our unity. Everything around us is asking us to lean into each other, to support and be supported. It’s time. Very grateful to @teachandtransform for posting this important history lesson. 🔽 REPOST from @teachandtransform • “👏🏽 ANTI ASIAN RACISM IS NOT A “NEW” PHENOMENON 👏🏽 SWIPE TO LEARN MORE 👏🏽 . Obviously my break was shorter than expected. My fear is that like when stories go viral, there’s attention for a media cycle and then everyone moves on. So since folx are recognizing anti Asian racism, I want to grab this opportunity to educate y’all. . In my experience, both Asians and non Asians are pretty unaware of Asian American history. I was too up until college when I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible. I’m STILL learning. The thing is, our history is barely taught. You might hear about Chinese Exclusion or the internment of Japanese citizens, but that’s usually it. In order to combat racism, ignorance, and disrupt the model minority myth, we need to understand our history. . As my friend and colleague @bobkim411 talks about in his @smithsonianapa webinar on the legal landscape, Asians have been involved in some monumental Supreme Court cases. Our identities have been used to define whiteness and who isn’t white, as well as pitting us against Black folx and other communities of color. . If you are just starting to expand your antiracism to include Asians, research these Supreme Court cases and also check my highlights on APAHM or API to learn more.” via @teachandtransform [Image Description: text-heavy slides w/photos detailing unjust court cases against Asian people in the US starting in the 1800s. For full text descriptions please DM me. — Parisa]
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Caption : This last year I’ve learned so much more from peers than I did in school. I feel so much richer for it, & so much more connected with this vast human family of ours. There’s tons we don’t know about each other, about ourselves. Imagine what’s possible when we know more, when we care more, when we deepen our unity. Everything around us is asking us to lean into each other, to support and be supported. It’s time. Very grateful to @teachandtransform for posting this important history lesson. 🔽 REPOST from @teachandtransform • “👏🏽 ANTI ASIAN RACISM IS NOT A “NEW” PHENOMENON 👏🏽 SWIPE TO LEARN MORE 👏🏽 . Obviously my break was shorter than expected. My fear is that like when stories go viral, there’s attention for a media cycle and then everyone moves on. So since folx are recognizing anti Asian racism, I want to grab this opportunity to educate y’all. . In my experience, both Asians and non Asians are pretty unaware of Asian American history. I was too up until college when I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible. I’m STILL learning. The thing is, our history is barely taught. You might hear about Chinese Exclusion or the internment of Japanese citizens, but that’s usually it. In order to combat racism, ignorance, and disrupt the model minority myth, we need to understand our history. . As my friend and colleague @bobkim411 talks about in his @smithsonianapa webinar on the legal landscape, Asians have been involved in some monumental Supreme Court cases. Our identities have been used to define whiteness and who isn’t white, as well as pitting us against Black folx and other communities of color. . If you are just starting to expand your antiracism to include Asians, research these Supreme Court cases and also check my highlights on APAHM or API to learn more.” via @teachandtransform [Image Description: text-heavy slides w/photos detailing unjust court cases against Asian people in the US starting in the 1800s. For full text descriptions please DM me. — Parisa]
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Caption : This last year I’ve learned so much more from peers than I did in school. I feel so much richer for it, & so much more connected with this vast human family of ours. There’s tons we don’t know about each other, about ourselves. Imagine what’s possible when we know more, when we care more, when we deepen our unity. Everything around us is asking us to lean into each other, to support and be supported. It’s time. Very grateful to @teachandtransform for posting this important history lesson. 🔽 REPOST from @teachandtransform • “👏🏽 ANTI ASIAN RACISM IS NOT A “NEW” PHENOMENON 👏🏽 SWIPE TO LEARN MORE 👏🏽 . Obviously my break was shorter than expected. My fear is that like when stories go viral, there’s attention for a media cycle and then everyone moves on. So since folx are recognizing anti Asian racism, I want to grab this opportunity to educate y’all. . In my experience, both Asians and non Asians are pretty unaware of Asian American history. I was too up until college when I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible. I’m STILL learning. The thing is, our history is barely taught. You might hear about Chinese Exclusion or the internment of Japanese citizens, but that’s usually it. In order to combat racism, ignorance, and disrupt the model minority myth, we need to understand our history. . As my friend and colleague @bobkim411 talks about in his @smithsonianapa webinar on the legal landscape, Asians have been involved in some monumental Supreme Court cases. Our identities have been used to define whiteness and who isn’t white, as well as pitting us against Black folx and other communities of color. . If you are just starting to expand your antiracism to include Asians, research these Supreme Court cases and also check my highlights on APAHM or API to learn more.” via @teachandtransform [Image Description: text-heavy slides w/photos detailing unjust court cases against Asian people in the US starting in the 1800s. For full text descriptions please DM me. — Parisa]
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Caption : So grateful for another year on this exquisite planet. Thanks to all those who raised me. Thanks to all who have loved me, wished me well, encouraged me, taught me, partnered with me, inspired me. Thanks for the challenges, heartbreaks, and humbling experiences. Thanks for all the joy. The last year was filled with gifts, some strangely wrapped, some on silver platters. Thanks to all those who remind me to see and count and be grateful for them all. Wishing us all so much love. 🙏🤍✨ Image Description: Me (very tiny in the shot) sitting on a concrete block on the far left of a panoramic shot of desert, with hills in the background and a blue morning sky above. My hair is braided back and I’m wearing a gray sweeter, black and beige pattered pants, and black sandals.
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Caption : Raised in the Bahá’í Faith I was always taught the beauty and transcendence of Christ and His teachings. To be a Baha’i was to also love Jesus and see His teachings as truth, affirming the oneness of our common Creator. I’m so grateful for their timelessness, and timeliness. This particular teaching… So simple. So challenging. So beautiful. How gorgeous that He never said where the neighborhood ended. Maybe we weren’t ready yet to comprehend living on a sphere, or to see that the (seemingly) uncrossable boundaries were all of our own creation. Praying that we catch up to this teaching. Praying that we see each other as one family. Praying that as we learn to be more loving to ourselves that it teaches us to love others more, and vice versa. As a dear sister of mine says: I love you. I love me. I love us. A joyous Christmas to all. 🙏🌟 “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (22:37-39). Image: A splotched yellow sweatshirt with black words that say: “Love Thy Neighbor Thy Immigrant Neighbor Thy Black Neighbor Thy Atheist Neighbor Thy Muslim Neighbor Thy Depressed Neighbor Thy Asian Neighbor Thy LGBTQIA Neighbor Thy Disabled Neighbor Thy Indigenous Neighbor Thy Jewish Neighbor Thy Political Neighbor Thy Elderly Neighbor Thy Homeless Neighbor Thy Latinx Neighbor Thy Addicted Neighbor Thy Millennial Neighbor Thy____________Neighbor”
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Caption : Our connection. Stark. Infinite. So fixed that to forget another’s only snuffs out our own. This thought rises over and over in my mind, in my heart, in conversations, in these dark days. Days filled with grieving in and for Israel, grieving in and for Palestine, grieving the world over. Days of anger, fear. Days texts stay green, whatsapps sit unread. Nights wondering if dear ones in the Holy Land, our Holy Land, didn’t make it. Relief, as a reply makes it through. I remember gunshots in another place, hiding under car windows, forced out for food but fairly sure we’d be ok. Now so many have no such hope. No hope at all. After weeks healing from illness, years healing from scrolling and fighting and watching and pleading — a crumbling world taking me with it — I’ve learned to breathe and rest, to value mindful silence, constructive patience, prayer, joy. Not to forget but to remember, to hold space, hold myself together because the battles are lifetimes long. I watch as the logical response to bitter hatred is bitter hatred, an eye for an eye for an eye. And I know, in my soul, in every fiber of my being, that the enemy is the hatred itself. The old logic has to die. In its place: Opening. Wisdom. Knowing. Humanity is one. Every border, class, caste, race, fight over religion is a lie. And that lie is where we must bury our swords, claw through sinew, rip and shred with ragged breath and tears streaming. Roar at the top of our lungs that we won’t believe those who’d send thousands to war for their coffers or egos or ancestral quarrels, from the comfort of any place at all. And when the steaming mess lies strewn about we stand on its jagged pieces, making sure it never comes together again. We look to each other across this battlefield, different hues and languages and prayers, and closing eyes that have all seen slaughter we bow our heads in a promise to never forget each other again. Humanity can’t really be taken. It can only be given away. Many hope you’ll join them in this squandering. Defy them, remind them by remembering your own and theirs. #IStandWithHumanity Image: Black background, white lettering. Centered, the word “humanity”.
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Caption : Appreciating this so much and taking the advice. Grateful for this post and this precious guidance @berniceaking 🙏🤍 Repost from @berniceaking • “Praying for George Floyd’s family. Remembering his daughter, Gianna.” [Image Description: black background with a soft gray image of George Floyd on the right side, a small yellow The King Center stamp below him, and the following written in white text on the left: Derek Chauvin took George Floyd’s breath, but we WILL NOT let this moment, nor the verdict, take our breath. Before you make a move after the verdict, take a moment to breathe for George. Breathe nonviolently for Justice. Breathe nonviolently for Equity. Breathe nonviolently for Reimagining Public Safety. Breathe nonviolently for Voting Rights, Breathe nonviolently for Livable Wages. Breathe nonviolently for Black and brown lives to be free from Systemic Racism and Dehumanization. Nonviolence = love – centered, strategic noncooperation with evil. #Keep Breathing #BreatheOutLove]
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Caption : I’ve been auntied again! 🙏🥹💓💓 Feeling so incredibly grateful for these two wonderful souls. Rumi St. Ledger Fitz-Henley was born a week ago. I got to witness the miracle of his entrance via indomitable, kind, loving mama @koolkelsey with @fitztheworldcitizen backing her up and rally driving to the hospital like a pro 🚗💨 . And it’s been such a heartwarming experience to see big sister Anaya Soleil giving him gentle pats and strokes, and looking to him in concern when he cries. Shout out to Grandma Kim and Mimi Sally, coming through with so much support and wisdom. Some blessings are just pure sweetness. 🙏💓✨ Image description: Two slides with minor differences. Close on two year old Anaya, doting on newborn Rumi, who lies on white sheets sleeping. He wears a white onesie with his hands covered, she wears a white tank (and her hands are still baby-squishy with little knuckle dimples 🥰). In the second photo Kelsey’s hand is barely visible touching Rumi, and Rumi is a little more tightly snuggling himself.
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Caption : I’ve been auntied again! 🙏🥹💓💓 Feeling so incredibly grateful for these two wonderful souls. Rumi St. Ledger Fitz-Henley was born a week ago. I got to witness the miracle of his entrance via indomitable, kind, loving mama @koolkelsey with @fitztheworldcitizen backing her up and rally driving to the hospital like a pro 🚗💨 . And it’s been such a heartwarming experience to see big sister Anaya Soleil giving him gentle pats and strokes, and looking to him in concern when he cries. Shout out to Grandma Kim and Mimi Sally, coming through with so much support and wisdom. Some blessings are just pure sweetness. 🙏💓✨ Image description: Two slides with minor differences. Close on two year old Anaya, doting on newborn Rumi, who lies on white sheets sleeping. He wears a white onesie with his hands covered, she wears a white tank (and her hands are still baby-squishy with little knuckle dimples 🥰). In the second photo Kelsey’s hand is barely visible touching Rumi, and Rumi is a little more tightly snuggling himself.
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Caption : Look at the Universe.✨ I did laundry (finally). This shirt was clean (finally). Traveled w/it because it’s a fave. It grabbed me so I threw it on. Walked out the door thinking ‘I ♥️ this shirt’ (I don’t usually like words on my clothes but it’s comfy & the right size & good energy) & then thought ‘Wait. What day is today?’ IT’S 7/10!! #ChronicDiseaseDay!! @chronicdiseaseday sent me this shirt a yr or so ago, but I didn’t get to post. Still I appreciated it & what it made me think of: How many people I love, including me, have lived w/chronic disease (CD). Examples of these are heart disease, stroke, cancer, depression, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, asthma & many more. Any disease that lasts 3+ mos. Some greatly impact lives, some are more manageable. CDs are very common — 6 in 10 Americans live or have lived w/at least 1! 30% have multiple! Covid increased that number as per the WHO, 10-20% of Covid infections leads to Long Covid. 😓 Many of these diseases are ‘invisible’ — so a lot of us, our family & loved ones are dealing w/challenges others may have no clue about. These diseases are often neglected by our healthcare system & folks w/some of them are often told for years their symptoms are ‘all in their head.’ Black & brown communities especially face higher incidences of CD. Greater levels of childhood trauma & poverty also predispose us to chronic disease. Having a CD doesn’t have to be a terrible experience. But what goes a loooong way to making them manageable is addressing systemic, interpersonal, & internalized ableism — things that not only make CDs difficult but create more of them — & cultivating more thoughtful communities. We can do this by learning more about the experiences of those w/CD, practicing empathy rather than sympathy (feeling WITH rather than FOR), supporting prevention/treatment, respecting accessibility like parking spots & bathroom stalls designed for folks w/disabilities & learning about ableism (it’s stunningly common in our speech, buildings, media & more). Learning about CDs can enrich individual lives & communities. Let’s do it! #IStayStrong for all! @chronicdiseaseday Image Description in Alt Text
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Caption : Thank you to those who’ve been asking how you can support. And thank you @traciethoms for posting this helpful info. Repost from @traciethoms • Posting this here again because it’s a big conversation… Ultimately, do whatever feels right to you! Just be informed of several points of view before you do! #sagaftrastrong Image description: Text on white background. In red: “Important SAG Strike info!” In black: “Lots of people want to support us by cancelling their streaming subscriptions. Unless the unions come out and call for that though, please don’t. We were told back in 2021 (when we were negotiating) that the AMPT loves to use data to control us. Cancelling streaming services feeds their assertion that streaming is inherently voliatale and risky, and that is why they should be able to hire fewer of us and pay us less. They maintain that streaming is still untested. We all know that’s the primary way people watch what we make. It’s a lie.” And in red: “The best way to help us right now is to donate to the Entertainment Community Fund – it supports the people making the film and tv you love and we can apply for grants to help keep our bills paid.”
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Caption : Learning to soothe the ache of earthly loss with remembrance of the gift of another spiritual ancestor gained… Kevin Locke, Lakota name Tȟokéya Inážiŋ, meaning “The First to Arise,” brought so much beauty to the lives of so many with his gorgeous artistic talents. I never got to know him, but he was so often just a degree of separation away that I benefited from his steady, gentle presence and guidance in the Bahá’í community of the US. I feel so sad… I can only imagine the grief of those who were close to him. Praying for infinite blessings on his journey, and for soothing and healing for the hearts of his loved ones. I am filled with so much gratitude for and inspiration from his life on this plane. If you didn’t know this beautiful man please look up his life, his gorgeous flute playing and hoop dances. May the mission of his life carry on: “All of the people have the same impulses, spirits, and goals. Through my music and dance, I want to create a positive awareness of oneness of humanity.” — Kevin Locke 🙏 Image Descriptions: Slide 1 — Kevin smiling, with brown skin and his hair in two gray braids. He wears beautiful multicolored clothing and is holding many multicolored hoops he’s joined in a circle that frames his face. Slides 2&3 — A FB post from Jackie Simmons Newberry with a land acknowledgment prayer created by Kevin Locke. Text of the prayer in comments below. ♥️ Videos: Kevin hoop dancing outside, images of a herd of buffalo roaming a countryside of golden-green grasses as he’s speaking about the beauty of the world. These are interspersed with him speaking and playing his flute before a small, happy crowd of people indoors who’ve gathered to hear him.
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Caption : Learning to soothe the ache of earthly loss with remembrance of the gift of another spiritual ancestor gained… Kevin Locke, Lakota name Tȟokéya Inážiŋ, meaning “The First to Arise,” brought so much beauty to the lives of so many with his gorgeous artistic talents. I never got to know him, but he was so often just a degree of separation away that I benefited from his steady, gentle presence and guidance in the Bahá’í community of the US. I feel so sad… I can only imagine the grief of those who were close to him. Praying for infinite blessings on his journey, and for soothing and healing for the hearts of his loved ones. I am filled with so much gratitude for and inspiration from his life on this plane. If you didn’t know this beautiful man please look up his life, his gorgeous flute playing and hoop dances. May the mission of his life carry on: “All of the people have the same impulses, spirits, and goals. Through my music and dance, I want to create a positive awareness of oneness of humanity.” — Kevin Locke 🙏 Image Descriptions: Slide 1 — Kevin smiling, with brown skin and his hair in two gray braids. He wears beautiful multicolored clothing and is holding many multicolored hoops he’s joined in a circle that frames his face. Slides 2&3 — A FB post from Jackie Simmons Newberry with a land acknowledgment prayer created by Kevin Locke. Text of the prayer in comments below. ♥️ Videos: Kevin hoop dancing outside, images of a herd of buffalo roaming a countryside of golden-green grasses as he’s speaking about the beauty of the world. These are interspersed with him speaking and playing his flute before a small, happy crowd of people indoors who’ve gathered to hear him.
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Caption : Learning to soothe the ache of earthly loss with remembrance of the gift of another spiritual ancestor gained… Kevin Locke, Lakota name Tȟokéya Inážiŋ, meaning “The First to Arise,” brought so much beauty to the lives of so many with his gorgeous artistic talents. I never got to know him, but he was so often just a degree of separation away that I benefited from his steady, gentle presence and guidance in the Bahá’í community of the US. I feel so sad… I can only imagine the grief of those who were close to him. Praying for infinite blessings on his journey, and for soothing and healing for the hearts of his loved ones. I am filled with so much gratitude for and inspiration from his life on this plane. If you didn’t know this beautiful man please look up his life, his gorgeous flute playing and hoop dances. May the mission of his life carry on: “All of the people have the same impulses, spirits, and goals. Through my music and dance, I want to create a positive awareness of oneness of humanity.” — Kevin Locke 🙏 Image Descriptions: Slide 1 — Kevin smiling, with brown skin and his hair in two gray braids. He wears beautiful multicolored clothing and is holding many multicolored hoops he’s joined in a circle that frames his face. Slides 2&3 — A FB post from Jackie Simmons Newberry with a land acknowledgment prayer created by Kevin Locke. Text of the prayer in comments below. ♥️ Videos: Kevin hoop dancing outside, images of a herd of buffalo roaming a countryside of golden-green grasses as he’s speaking about the beauty of the world. These are interspersed with him speaking and playing his flute before a small, happy crowd of people indoors who’ve gathered to hear him.
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Caption : Fun fact: ALL of these are false. 🤡💩 I’ve been hearing a lot since the #SAGAFTRA strike began about how we’re millionaires complaining about having too few millions. Truth is, most union actors can’t even afford to have acting as their only job. But credible-looking websites claim to tell “everything you want to know” about an actor. Our ‘lives’ become clickbait. People (and now computers) make things up about us to grab attention. So me supposedly having hundreds of thousands of dollars, or millions (would be nice! 😅) gets used as a way to attract interest to their sites. *Every click gets them paid* and they know there’s more of an appetite for astronomical numbers than for facts that aren’t usually accessible anyway without hacking someone’s bank accounts. As actors and writers are striking for justice and to protect our existence, please know that there are MANY ways we are misrepresented. I first read that I was worth $55M back while I was living in a camper trailer to save money. And these articles lie about everything from my birthday to my measurements to my relationship status. They’ve confused my own family members! I do make great money sometimes. But if I’m between projects, residuals are generally my only income. As my fellow actors have been saying repeatedly, our residuals are shrinking. We are also artists who don’t or can’t necessarily take every job, for a variety of reasons. We do not get paid leave. If we have to pause working because of illness or injury, to care for a loved one, etc we are SOL. And we are nearly all making a tiny fraction of what the decision makers are. Please be careful where you’re getting your information. Listen to actors, a community with enormous economic diversity, and trust that we’re not all just out here counting gold bricks. We’re fighting together — the few counting gold bricks and the many pinching pennies — for economic justice and security. That’s something every human deserves. #SagAftraStrike Image: Screenshots of four clickbait articles which all falsely say my net worth is $600K, $9M, $18M and $55M. A poop emoji sits in their midst.
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