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#FBF–Cachoeira to New Orleans

By: like black butterflies August 17, 2018August 17, 2018

WanderAfrican Diaspora, Bahia, Brazil, Cachoeira, cultural retentions, FBF, growing pains, personal development, Salvador, study abroad, wanderlustLeave a Comment

Maybe a year ago, maybe more, I was going through old photos and I stopped to look through the images taken while I was studying abroad. In 2009 I spent a semester in Northeastern Brazil, my first time really living in another country. I’d visited other countries before, but for a matter of weeks, not…

30 Restaurants: Bennachin & Antoine’s

By: like black butterflies August 16, 2018August 16, 2018

Savor30 restaurants, 30 to 30, Antoine's, Bennachin, cultural retentions, Journey to 30, NOLA eats, NOLA living, west africanLeave a Comment

Bennachin Restaurant This is a West African restaurant, specifically based in Gambia and Cameroon, although there were some menu items from other countries int he region, located in the French Quarter. It’s tiny, you could miss it walking by, as I have on COUNTLESS occasions. It’s right near Verti Mart if you know where that…

Book 18: Eloquent Rage, A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower–Brittney Cooper

By: like black butterflies August 15, 2018August 14, 2018

Question30 Books, 30 to 30, black feminism, black girl magic, black rage, Brittney Cooper, Journey to 30, well read black girl, words of wisdomLeave a Comment

What I loved about reading this book is that she spoke so directly to so many of my life experiences, particularly when it comes to Black exceptionalism, overachieving, and adherence to respectability. While we decidedly had very different economic upbringings, it was like we experienced the same social frustrations and racial animosity of instructors and…

Whitney Plantation

By: like black butterflies August 14, 2018August 13, 2018

Wander30 Dates, 30 to 30, black history is American history, Journey to 30, peculiar institution, plantation tour, slavery, sugarcane, triangular trade, Whitney PlantationLeave a Comment

I’m trying to resist writing too much about my experience at Whitney, but it’s difficult because it was such a great tour. If I compare Whitney to the narrative I was presented at Melrose Plantation earlier this summer, it’s like night and day in terms of content and critical race analysis. Basically the Melrose tour…

Why Am I Doing?

By: like black butterflies August 12, 2018August 12, 2018

Reflectfear of failure, find your joy, find your purpose, Journey to 30, no regrets, pursue your dreamsLeave a Comment

Not what. Why. I’ve been putting off this post, because I knew it would take more mental energy to write it than I had at the moment when I started. Yesterday my planner called me out. Everyday there’s a quote on the note’s page. Yesterday’s quote was: People lose their way when they lose their…

30 “Dates”: 6 – 10

Date 6: Second Line Sunday, Treme Sidewalk Steppers–Feb 18, 2018 I lament how few Sundays I make it out to see the second-lines during the spring. Every social aid and pleasure club has a week where they take a route in the city to second-line. It is an event not to miss as folks come…

FBF: Halloween 2017

By: like black butterflies August 10, 2018August 9, 2018

Create30 Dates, 45, 53%, costuming, Halloween, Journey to 30, MAGA, satire, white tears1 Comment

*Cue the White Tears™ #youmad? I alway lament not having creative Halloween costumes from year to year, as well as not having a stash of lazy-man costumes (i.e., mass produced costumes that I can just throw on when needed). But last year, some time during late summer, I had a genius idea. Or at least…

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