HeyJaredBecoming Zakiyyah
Closing the distance between who I am and the person I want to be, one self discovery at a time.
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What's Love Got to Do With It? (opens the original)
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My personal issue:Soo if the lyrics of grooming victims are the standards of love we aspire to, it’s not surprising that those values shapes the expectations we have of women once the track is done.My personal grievance began many years ago, in the club, cross armed, refusing to sing Cater 2 U. But it’s continued into my later adulthood, with peers getting engaged, married, moving in with partners or having kids. Specifically, with the way women in relationships are expected to fall into line, t
Dangerously in Love (opens the original)
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Let me set the scene. It’s a Saturday evening, you’re in the grocery store getting some last minute dinner items, bopping along to what’s playing on the store speaker.This is where I found myself, singing along to the Beyonce playlist the grocery’s employee had decided would soundtrack their evening. I am not immune to Beyonce’s discography so as Single Ladies faded into Dangerously In Love faded to Halo, I’m increasingly getting into my karaoke persona and lyrics start to pour out of me, from w
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