I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
I’m really bad at having parties for myself and generally prioritising celebrating special moments in my life. My birthday was approaching and I was stressing a bit about what to do. I was talking to my dear friend @robertdiament about it & as is so characteristic of his generosity he offered to host a birthday party for me in his beautiful home. I haven’t had a birthday party in 5 years and this was my first since leaving London… I was so touched my how many of my friends made the trip to the seaside to celebrate with me… the absolute icing on the cake was my gorgeous brilliant friend @fionaleahydesign offering to design a birthdayscape for me 🤯 I’ve been familiar with Fiona’s work for years and before I had ever met her was slightly obsessed with her ability to transform rooms into real life fairy tale scenes, the fact that she was also Irish was an additional bonus ! When I eventually met her IRL I also discovered that she was a top buzzer the soundest of the sounders, beautiful, brilliant and kind. A real treasure! I love all of these people, so grateful to have you all in my life ! Anyone not pictured I’m so sorry, I don’t love you any less lol was having too much fun to take as many photos as I should, if you have any pls tag also more pics of the table please Heart very full 😭 Thank you too to one of my favourite brands @oliviavonhalle for my beautiful birthday dress, I felt like a slinky minx in it hahaha 🤍🤍🤍
Land of snacks ! This elephant was highly motivated by snacks, his trunk is prospecting for them. I too am highly motivated by snacks ( treats in general)🍬 It’s also 40 degrees, I’m chaperoning kid #1 on set and trying to work full time 🥵 Been here for a minute but been too hot, too busy, too borderline deranged to post. Been thinking about filters the social media turbo charged pressure for perfection. When I look at pictures of me I see lots of things I could *tweak to present a perfect flawless version of myself but personally that don’t sit right with me either in regards to my own well being or in terms of the messaging I put out into the world. This is no way a judgement on anybody else, if I was in my 20s now the lord knows I’d probs to altered filtered to fuck but also enough already – I decided a long time ago now that I refuse to be (too) beholden to this shit, we gotta give ourselves a fkn break !!!
Land of snacks ! This elephant was highly motivated by snacks, his trunk is prospecting for them. I too am highly motivated by snacks ( treats in general)🍬 It’s also 40 degrees, I’m chaperoning kid #1 on set and trying to work full time 🥵 Been here for a minute but been too hot, too busy, too borderline deranged to post. Been thinking about filters the social media turbo charged pressure for perfection. When I look at pictures of me I see lots of things I could *tweak to present a perfect flawless version of myself but personally that don’t sit right with me either in regards to my own well being or in terms of the messaging I put out into the world. This is no way a judgement on anybody else, if I was in my 20s now the lord knows I’d probs to altered filtered to fuck but also enough already – I decided a long time ago now that I refuse to be (too) beholden to this shit, we gotta give ourselves a fkn break !!!
It’s all Gucci I recently had the pleasure of sitting down @gucci to discuss how an individual can contribute to meaningful change in 2024 when the world feels overwhelming and how can we harness the power of our surrounding communities? Thank you to the ever inspiring @Kenyahunt who brought us together and asked the most thoughtful of questions! A highlight for me too was meeting Joyclen Buffong, founder of one of Gucci’s Changemakers organisation @rise.365, and hearing about the vital grassroots work they are doing in Hackney. Do check them out support if possible. Link you know where ⬆️ just one of the incredible projects #rise.365 run : For over a year now RISE 365 ,Made Up Kitchen and our Young People have been looking after our neighbours with a Community Food Response Programme, distributing nearly 30,000 culturally appropriate dishes, and over 20,000 bags of shopping to date. We currently provide weekly shopping to over 200 (mostly African and Caribbean) families, and this number is rising.
It’s all Gucci I recently had the pleasure of sitting down @gucci to discuss how an individual can contribute to meaningful change in 2024 when the world feels overwhelming and how can we harness the power of our surrounding communities? Thank you to the ever inspiring @Kenyahunt who brought us together and asked the most thoughtful of questions! A highlight for me too was meeting Joyclen Buffong, founder of one of Gucci’s Changemakers organisation @rise.365, and hearing about the vital grassroots work they are doing in Hackney. Do check them out support if possible. Link you know where ⬆️ just one of the incredible projects #rise.365 run : For over a year now RISE 365 ,Made Up Kitchen and our Young People have been looking after our neighbours with a Community Food Response Programme, distributing nearly 30,000 culturally appropriate dishes, and over 20,000 bags of shopping to date. We currently provide weekly shopping to over 200 (mostly African and Caribbean) families, and this number is rising.
It’s all Gucci I recently had the pleasure of sitting down @gucci to discuss how an individual can contribute to meaningful change in 2024 when the world feels overwhelming and how can we harness the power of our surrounding communities? Thank you to the ever inspiring @Kenyahunt who brought us together and asked the most thoughtful of questions! A highlight for me too was meeting Joyclen Buffong, founder of one of Gucci’s Changemakers organisation @rise.365, and hearing about the vital grassroots work they are doing in Hackney. Do check them out support if possible. Link you know where ⬆️ just one of the incredible projects #rise.365 run : For over a year now RISE 365 ,Made Up Kitchen and our Young People have been looking after our neighbours with a Community Food Response Programme, distributing nearly 30,000 culturally appropriate dishes, and over 20,000 bags of shopping to date. We currently provide weekly shopping to over 200 (mostly African and Caribbean) families, and this number is rising.
It’s all Gucci I recently had the pleasure of sitting down @gucci to discuss how an individual can contribute to meaningful change in 2024 when the world feels overwhelming and how can we harness the power of our surrounding communities? Thank you to the ever inspiring @Kenyahunt who brought us together and asked the most thoughtful of questions! A highlight for me too was meeting Joyclen Buffong, founder of one of Gucci’s Changemakers organisation @rise.365, and hearing about the vital grassroots work they are doing in Hackney. Do check them out support if possible. Link you know where ⬆️ just one of the incredible projects #rise.365 run : For over a year now RISE 365 ,Made Up Kitchen and our Young People have been looking after our neighbours with a Community Food Response Programme, distributing nearly 30,000 culturally appropriate dishes, and over 20,000 bags of shopping to date. We currently provide weekly shopping to over 200 (mostly African and Caribbean) families, and this number is rising.
It’s all Gucci I recently had the pleasure of sitting down @gucci to discuss how an individual can contribute to meaningful change in 2024 when the world feels overwhelming and how can we harness the power of our surrounding communities? Thank you to the ever inspiring @Kenyahunt who brought us together and asked the most thoughtful of questions! A highlight for me too was meeting Joyclen Buffong, founder of one of Gucci’s Changemakers organisation @rise.365, and hearing about the vital grassroots work they are doing in Hackney. Do check them out support if possible. Link you know where ⬆️ just one of the incredible projects #rise.365 run : For over a year now RISE 365 ,Made Up Kitchen and our Young People have been looking after our neighbours with a Community Food Response Programme, distributing nearly 30,000 culturally appropriate dishes, and over 20,000 bags of shopping to date. We currently provide weekly shopping to over 200 (mostly African and Caribbean) families, and this number is rising.
It’s all Gucci I recently had the pleasure of sitting down @gucci to discuss how an individual can contribute to meaningful change in 2024 when the world feels overwhelming and how can we harness the power of our surrounding communities? Thank you to the ever inspiring @Kenyahunt who brought us together and asked the most thoughtful of questions! A highlight for me too was meeting Joyclen Buffong, founder of one of Gucci’s Changemakers organisation @rise.365, and hearing about the vital grassroots work they are doing in Hackney. Do check them out support if possible. Link you know where ⬆️ just one of the incredible projects #rise.365 run : For over a year now RISE 365 ,Made Up Kitchen and our Young People have been looking after our neighbours with a Community Food Response Programme, distributing nearly 30,000 culturally appropriate dishes, and over 20,000 bags of shopping to date. We currently provide weekly shopping to over 200 (mostly African and Caribbean) families, and this number is rising.
It’s all Gucci I recently had the pleasure of sitting down @gucci to discuss how an individual can contribute to meaningful change in 2024 when the world feels overwhelming and how can we harness the power of our surrounding communities? Thank you to the ever inspiring @Kenyahunt who brought us together and asked the most thoughtful of questions! A highlight for me too was meeting Joyclen Buffong, founder of one of Gucci’s Changemakers organisation @rise.365, and hearing about the vital grassroots work they are doing in Hackney. Do check them out support if possible. Link you know where ⬆️ just one of the incredible projects #rise.365 run : For over a year now RISE 365 ,Made Up Kitchen and our Young People have been looking after our neighbours with a Community Food Response Programme, distributing nearly 30,000 culturally appropriate dishes, and over 20,000 bags of shopping to date. We currently provide weekly shopping to over 200 (mostly African and Caribbean) families, and this number is rising.
It’s all Gucci I recently had the pleasure of sitting down @gucci to discuss how an individual can contribute to meaningful change in 2024 when the world feels overwhelming and how can we harness the power of our surrounding communities? Thank you to the ever inspiring @Kenyahunt who brought us together and asked the most thoughtful of questions! A highlight for me too was meeting Joyclen Buffong, founder of one of Gucci’s Changemakers organisation @rise.365, and hearing about the vital grassroots work they are doing in Hackney. Do check them out support if possible. Link you know where ⬆️ just one of the incredible projects #rise.365 run : For over a year now RISE 365 ,Made Up Kitchen and our Young People have been looking after our neighbours with a Community Food Response Programme, distributing nearly 30,000 culturally appropriate dishes, and over 20,000 bags of shopping to date. We currently provide weekly shopping to over 200 (mostly African and Caribbean) families, and this number is rising.
It’s all Gucci I recently had the pleasure of sitting down @gucci to discuss how an individual can contribute to meaningful change in 2024 when the world feels overwhelming and how can we harness the power of our surrounding communities? Thank you to the ever inspiring @Kenyahunt who brought us together and asked the most thoughtful of questions! A highlight for me too was meeting Joyclen Buffong, founder of one of Gucci’s Changemakers organisation @rise.365, and hearing about the vital grassroots work they are doing in Hackney. Do check them out support if possible. Link you know where ⬆️ just one of the incredible projects #rise.365 run : For over a year now RISE 365 ,Made Up Kitchen and our Young People have been looking after our neighbours with a Community Food Response Programme, distributing nearly 30,000 culturally appropriate dishes, and over 20,000 bags of shopping to date. We currently provide weekly shopping to over 200 (mostly African and Caribbean) families, and this number is rising.
Hair is not just hair. There’s so much more to it than that. The hairstyles captured in this video don’t just tell us about the wearer’s personal preferences, or what they find beautiful. They can also speak to their personal histories, their relationship status, their values and morals. Join @emmadabiri as she discusses the cultural significance of hair via the works of J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, and the oft-forgotten part that pin-tail combs play in styling them. You can see these works in The Cult of Beauty, our 5-star exhibition which is now in its final weeks. Find out more and plan your visit at Wellcome.info/cult-of-beauty [Alt text: Irish-Nigerian author Emma Dabiri is sitting on a sofa in Wellcome Collection’s Reading Room, in front of a red-carpeted staircase. She has a make-up case with her, and pulls out a pintail comb. As she goes on to talk about J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere’s work, B-roll imagery of his photographs appear on screen. Each of the black and white photographs shows the back of the head of a Black woman, her hair either threaded or braided into magnificent sculptural shapes. The first photo, Mkpuk Eba, shows a younger woman, her hair bound into 7 pompoms that stand up evenly around her head. The next photo, and perhaps the most complex hairstyle is subtitled Abebe. Here, from a centre parting down the back of the head the hair is braided in flat cornrows following the shape of the skull, up over the ears. Thicker braids, probably hair extensions, are coiled on the crown of the head and tumble down making a waterfall of thick black hair. In the last photo, Onile Gogoro Or Akaba, the hair is separated and coiled into about twelve uprights like dowels of wood. These are twisted into a circle at the top, making a crown of hair, standing proudly on the head of its owner. Many of these styles became known by their nicknames, which emerged from either the geographic area they came from, or from the natural and manmade forms they imitated including pineapples, crabs, suspension bridges or tower blocks.]
UNDER 20 SEATS LEFT I want to see some of YOU in ‘em. Join me and the one and only Nikki Giovanni in conversation on Tuesday March 26th at The Barbican 💥 Poem for a Lady Whose Voice I Like, is one of my favourite poems in the world ! I wish to God I’d known growing up ! I wish I’d known it my whole life. Every woman should know it (for when anyone man OR WOMAN tries it) Giovanni is incomparable we are blessed to have her 🖤🖤🖤 See you Tuesday 🖤🖤🖤
UNDER 20 SEATS LEFT I want to see some of YOU in ‘em. Join me and the one and only Nikki Giovanni in conversation on Tuesday March 26th at The Barbican 💥 Poem for a Lady Whose Voice I Like, is one of my favourite poems in the world ! I wish to God I’d known growing up ! I wish I’d known it my whole life. Every woman should know it (for when anyone man OR WOMAN tries it) Giovanni is incomparable we are blessed to have her 🖤🖤🖤 See you Tuesday 🖤🖤🖤
