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@blachromatic

◾️Care & somatic liberation worker ◾️Mother & creative director @zag.aza ◾️Spiritualist & herbalist enthusiast ◾️ Cultural producer @kongossastudios
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Je suis tellement nourrie par l’idée de co-curer des espaces pour se soigner/care collectivement avec mes partenaires @dthoughts.57 et @_sacredrites parce que je suis convaincue que partager cette charge en labeur génératrice est la manière la plus nourrissante d’interrompre les régime d’extractions, les formations prédatrices et energivores qui nous exploitent, nous appauvrissent et qui nous dissocient de notre chaire-de notre corps- de nos centres de régénération spirituelle, physique et émotionnelle, qui rendent possible la résistance. Comme Audre Lorde l’a dit, ”prendre soin de soi, ce n'est pas de la complaisance, c'est de la préservation de soi, et c'est un acte de guerre politique”: et c’est effectivement le cas quand on se rend compte que notre temps-notre pouvoir-notre énergie-notre essence-nos corps-sont dépossédé par un système qui dépend de notre labeur pour survivre. Depuis le 1 avril, à l’espace @eeeeh_eeeeh , notre laboratoire, “care-o-logie: vaisseau mère; (vivre) à travers, au dessus et au-delà”, a donc posé l’ancre et s’est manifesté sous forme d’espace-temps de recherche, un musée vivant qui présentent les dimensions de soins « curatives, érotiques, [et] restauratives» qui ont assuré notre préservation et la continuation de nos lignées de résistances à la captivité. Perturber et interrompre ces systèmes, c’est donc centrer le soin comme moyen de récupération tant temporelle que énergétique. Un grand merci à toute l’équipe @eeeeh_eeeeh , @ripopee et @c.nduhi qui ont rendu possible la création de cet espace. SUITE DES RDVs 💜 DIMANCHE 23 AVRIL Ateliers KitchenSProsper : 1) Mon atelier de création argile “Corps diasporiques. Imaginaires du care” : quels imaginaires portez-vous dans votre corps aux quels vous ne parlez jamais ? 10h30 - 13h Mixité : choisie pour les principalement afro-descendant.e.x.s et racisé.e.x.s, sans hommes cis dyadiques; 💜 SAMEDI 22 AVRIL Méditation poétique à travers la littérature afropéenne Intervention Madame KLEBO @madame_klebo 💜 DIMANCHE 23 AVRIL Intervention de Sacred Rites @_sacredrites : “Simplicités intentionnelles : Comment se réapproprier son espace-temps à travers la contemplation.”
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3 years ago
❤️‍🔥𝕽é𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝕷𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖝 𝕻𝖚𝖑𝖘𝖊 |𝟐𝟖.𝟏𝟏.𝟐𝟓 𝖆𝖚 𝟑𝟎.𝟏𝟏.𝟐𝟓|É𝖉𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝕲𝖊𝖓è𝖛𝖊❤️‍🔥   Il y a bientôt 2 semaines @lestime_geneve s’est associée à @pulse.only pour un week-end de rencontres, de discussions, de workshops et de festivités autour des cultures de performance Afro-queer.            C’est encore avec tellement de gratitude que nous aimerions remercier toutes les praticien.nexs, collectivités, artistes, participant.exs et institutions qui ont rendu possible cette exploration sonique, somatique et performative qui rendait hommage aux cultures de production, de performance, de soin,de joie et de co-création Afro-queer:  ❤️‍🔥 𝕵𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝟏:  - Curation Lestime - 𝕻𝖆𝖓𝖊𝖑 𝕿𝖆𝖑𝖐: “𝕹𝖔𝖎𝖗-𝖈𝖎𝖗 𝖓𝖔𝖘 𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘: 𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖊 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖊 𝖕𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖗𝖊 𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖙é, : 𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖊 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖊 𝖕𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖗𝖊 𝖗𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖙é ?”  par @blachromatic Modératrice: ruthnoemib et panelistes @of_fon_descent @thedavincikid @sonxseed @audreycdk @mariana_benenge @stencia__      Avec la lecture de« l’extrait » guidée | Prier dans l’intestin du monde  de @audrey_cdk ,  “𝔈𝔰𝔱-𝔠𝔢 𝔮𝔲𝔢 𝔩𝔞 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰 𝔡𝔬𝔯𝔱” ? - @𝔞𝔲𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔶_𝔠𝔡𝔨  Nous avons fait l’état des lieux de la manière dont nos intimités personnelles, culturelles et interpersonnelles sont politiques, en retraçant ensemble, nos cartographies de résistances, de résilience, de faire soin et d’abondance —    Cette rencontre était une opportunité pour créer un espace immersif et itinérant pour prendre corps, habiter critiquemment, se réfléchir collectivement ,se célébrer et (s’)écouter comment nos orientations politiques influencent la manière dont nous créons et au nom de quelles valeurs, visions et pratiques nous décidons de penser la liberté et la libération noire et queer.   ❤️‍🔥 Ces archives ont été crées par la photographe @abbymatthews.studio   ❤️‍🔥 Cette programmation a été rendue possible par le travail de collaboration entre l’équipe de production & de programmation indépendante @sweetgyalshal   @la_dingue , @blachromatic et la co-présidente @fanta_dllo   et Laura de @lestime_geneve ainsi que @pulse.only
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5 months ago
hi you look familiar, yes that’s @blachromatic
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1 year ago
2023. a ritual of rebirth. i am grateful for all cyclical lessons. 
i am grateful for the comfort in knowing that change is a constant. i am grateful for all the revivals. i am grateful for the happy & sad endings. 
i am grateful for all the burials. i am grateful for the regenerative care. i am grateful for the people who continue to chose me along the way. i am grateful for the delays & set backs. i am grateful for the capacity to feel the fullness of the world. i am grateful for the courage to embody the wave & swim against the tide. i am grateful for the unshakable knowing that i thrive life time after life time. ARaggamuffin’ seen through the lense of @molimostudio_ 🤍
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2 years ago
Capturing, documenting, witnessing my friends is my fave pass time. 💛 Grateful to be doing this life thing with you. To witness the many versions and learn/meeting the new layers. Blessed 😇 @blachromatic Montreal, June 2023
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2 years ago
BALA BALA in 🌞 @frisky.ness . Her Frikini Top affirms ‘I evolve’ and ‘I practice love’ with the wrapskirt 🌞❤️‍🔥 📸 by @iamelikem Creative Direction by @jfrisky 📍Senya Beraku, Central Region 🇬🇭 June 2020
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3 years ago
Accra, it’s been a ride, hours ago, I didn’t know if I was even leaving you after having 3 flights cancelled back to back (Accra really be that babe). You were such a stimulating liminal space where I got to discover a community of young creators with the courage and ingenuity to dream and reimagine the direction their culture is moving towards. I felt blessed to not only witness it but to be seen and accepted as a practionner, peer and partner in the process. I got to experience the tension between being a relatively privileged diasporan with the privilege of capital/ expendable resources and respectability, all while exploring simultaneously a contrasting reality deeply embedded in my Afro-feminist queer pan-african class consciousness that kept me in check and accountable to my care politics praxis in every space I entered. Anytime, I felt I was swaying in directions that went against my ethics, I am so thankful to my kin for holding space for complicated conversations around our active participation in these oppressive systems I can’t believe I’ve grown so much in a short period of time & it wouldn’t be possible without the amazing kin that chose to support be through out this trip. I am grateful to the beautiful souls that accompanied me there// shoutout to the the communities that welcomed me wholeheartedly and who made sure I felt cared for, supported & poured into, soul family, for real. I am thankful to all the people I also met in fleeting moments who offered me the grace of authenticity & kindness as our energy frequencies intersected. And mostly I want to thank my people for holding space for my organized my chaos, the ones who made sure I was tracking my organizing, who came through to help me, who fed me and helped me stay emotionally grounded with their check-ins before I left. I am full. Until next time. Shout out to my loving photographer 📸 @myrrhkwekuananse
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3 years ago
🌵 Cancer season is upon us, Ghana officiated it’s raining season with a bang, our bodies are slowing down and your girl obviously ushered it in with a beautiful crying session. It was a well-needed release after moving through cycles of intense relational co-regulation & dysregulation these past months. As I sat & allowed those tears to pour, I pondered on the following experience: 🌵I returned to Senya after one month to celebrate the full moon on my birthday…and as we were looking for spots to take pictures, my kin thought of taking them near cactus plants and I remembered that a month ago as I was walking on the beach I stumbled into a cactus plant and a thorn got into my foot. I didn’t think anything of it, it was too small to take out with my hands & although I was in pain: I kept it moving like it wasn’t that bad. 🌵 Despite complaining to my kin about it and them even offering support by asking me to go see an available medical professional or them helping me remove it, I still kept it pushing because it wasn’t as alarming and even if I was feeling so uncomfortable and it was actually sometimes debilitating to wear shoes…I still thought I’d be okay and that somehow with time, things would get better. So after two weeks and a fever later, I was in so much discomfort that I took a pair of scissors burnt the tip and proceeded to removing the thorn. It hurt so much but I knew that the pain and discomfort of removing the thorn would be far more re-leaving than me keeping It in. When I tell you I felt a sense of relief and freedom that was truly liberating , I mean it felt like elation and it then spirit clocked to me that this was a physical manifestation of a spiritual lesson: I had been exposed to so many traumatic experiences that my first response is to abandon my need for relief, care and support as soon as I feel a sense of vulnerability, or weakness & discomfort. B/c in traumatic moments, in order to stay attached to our neglectful caregivers, so many of us had to fawn, feign and minimize the amount of pain or the urgency of our need for care as to not overwhelm or risk having our needs rejected. (to be continued in comments) 📷 @bekkabob 🌵
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3 years ago
2021 left me speechless but I stayed in my bag minding my business regardless. Lost so many people a long the way but I love to think they found their way back home in the process. Dealt with unpredictable departures, heartbreaks and betrayals that made me realize how many times I neglected myself to be validated by people I deemed more valuable and deserving than me. I was about the many failed attempts to be understood, held and supported. It was about dealing with the aftermath of the triggers & trauma with as much compassion as possible even if most times I sunk into depression because I was too exhausted to do it by myself. It was about accepting defeat and learning to embrace uncontrollable change without suppressing my feelings. It was all those evenings I stayed up in meditation with my innerchild as she ranted to my higher self about how much I be playing myself. It was holding space for emotions like anger, shame, resentment & sadness that rarely have containers outside of the very few people in my spiritual life that showed up to the occasion. 2021 was my care year and where I decided that I would no longer neglect myself waiting for people to meet me in reciprocity. Mostly, 2021 allowed me to face myself in ways I could never imagine: it’s the way I was forced to look straight into the mirror and deal with myself without any filters. It’s the way I learnt how to harness patience in manifesting the life I desire. It’s the way I was shown the power of liberation pedagogy as an educator accompanying youth through the darkest hours of their lives. Like I really went through a whole pandemic and survived?!!!! I sending warmth and love to those of us who are still struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I hope you give yourself the grace of gratitude knowing you survived this far into apocalypse. It get’s darker, but the sun continues to rise as we eventually do. 📸 @_fe.za_
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4 years ago
Alexa play “Aaliyah-Rock the boat”. Remember november, Jambiani 2021
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4 years ago
Après un an de labeur co-créatif et collectif Le LaB Culturel délivré par l'équipe KitchenSProsper démarre son cycle d'ateliers le 27 novembre 2021. Dans ce cadre et grâce au @tu_theatredelusine Nous avons l'occasion de vous recevoir dans une capsule temps qui se déclinera sur trois journées. KitchenSProsper te propose de nous accompagner pour une retraite de trois jours -in praxis durant lesquelles, ensemble nous aurons l'opportunité de naviguer des outils du soin par les prismes de la poésie, de la nourriture mais aussi de la guérison somatique. Il s'agit d'une "litanie [of committments]" durant laquelle nous nous engagerons entre nous dans Un espace amménagé Avec Repas collectif Et des activités en pratique. 🌱 Horaires? 10h-18h (chaque journée). 🌱Lieu et dates: @tu_theatredelusine 🍃27 novembre : "Textures incorporées; sororités immersives" Proposé par @sebennitaama @thoughtson.e57 Et en compagnie de @annathesupernova Il reste des places 🍃22 janvier : SuperNova Fruits Proposé par @annathesupernova Et @KitchenSProsper 🍃5 février 2022: "Care Incarné et Politiques du Plaisir" Proposé par @blachromatic @_sacredrites Et @kitchenSProsper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pass = Pas nécessaire . Masques = obligatoires Prix = Libre Inscris-toi sur [email protected] afin réserver ta place et ne pas louper l'occasion de te ressourcer: Winter is coming and "[we are commuting] To See you. ... Communion We need You You need me In communion." Bless your (he)arts, KicthenSProsper.
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4 years ago
🌕 Mercury was in libra microbraids and just went direct. The moon is very pregnant in fiery Aries, my lunar sign and it’s been full of revelatory musings. Sensual Scorpio season is around the corner and it’s getting colder in the northern hemisphere. The year is almost ending and I can’t help but question, What’s good, under the hood? Your girl has been away from socials for 3 months + and feeling freer than ever. It’s amazing how much social media is an integral part of our networking and don’t get it twisted; I haven’t been in the mix of most cultural events and conversations and it got me feeling pretty isolated for a minute. it has been a challenge for me to intentionally take a break to focus inwards and sit with myself in silence because I realized that no matter how rewarding being in this space can seem ( thanks to the dopamine effect): there is nothing as nourishing as being able to sit with myself & my people in full presence and without the pressure or the urgency to perform. 📸 My Ibeji @_fe.za_
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4 years ago