HeyJaredAssata Blooms
🌙 a Black and Indigenous mama still proudly living on her ancestral lands with an immense love for Creator + creation, music, liberation, sacred motherhood, writing, true crime, southern accents and all things floral.
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nineteen years later. (opens the original)
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seven years and the body has made itself new. every cell replaced, every piece of skin becoming skin that was never there beneath his hands. i know the science is more complicated than that but i need to believe there’s a body underneath this one that he never got to have.it’s been exactly nineteen years today which means i have grown myself over twice since then. there’s no skin left on my thighs that remembers him. no shoulder carrying the exact cells beneath his fingers. no mouth, no wrist, n
You Don’t Get to Keep the South (opens the original)
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I was born down here. Deep South. Mobile, Alabama. Not Southern by way of relocation or because I found myself enchanted with grandfather’s beard (what many of you like to call spanish moss) and wraparound porches somewhere along the way. I mean born here. Raised here. This place made me. The Gulf air and afternoon thunderstorms made me. Red dirt and muddy river water made me. Women who could stretch a meal and a dollar and a prayer farther than any of them had business going made me. Church pew
May Borikén Have What Every People Deserve (opens the original)
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Some of the happiest moments of my life these last two years have been spent on the waters of Borikén. Sitting beside the ocean and letting myself be small in front of something so ancient. Laughing until my stomach hurt with people I love while the Caribbean stretched out behind us. Watching the sky turn colors I swear don’t exist anywhere else. Letting saltwater hold me when I needed somewhere to put everything I was carrying.<p class="cta-caption"
Every Day is Ashura, Every Land is Karbala (opens the original)
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* This was meant to be published on Ashura but life had others plans. The information is still very relevant so I chose to still publish it now. *Subscribe nowThere’s been a lot in the news lately about Shia Muslims and I’ve noticed that many people outside of the Muslim community (and honestly even some within it) don’t fully understand what that means so I decided to make this post free and available to everyone. When our communities are being talke
The Many Ways to Become Extraordinary (opens the original)
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Though I grew up playing soccer, it was definitely not at the level where anyone was scouting me for the World Cup but it was enough to understand the beauty of a perfectly weighted pass, the intelligence behind movement off the ball and the feeling of reading the field before the play unfolds. So when people ask the question that’s dominated soccer conversations for nearly two decades, Messi or Ronaldo?, I’ve never really felt the need to pick a side.Until recently…Subscribe now<p
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