Judicaelle Irakoze
@Judicaelle_
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Multi-Award Winning Afro-Political Feminist. I am building an Africa safe for women and girls.📧 [email protected]
Joined June 2013
We don't need international women's day. We need men to stop killing women We need our governments to address the high rate of teenage pregnancies.We need free pads for all girls regardless of where they are. We need rape to stop being a weapon of war.
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I am turning 29 in two weeks and here is 29 pieces of advice to young women in their 20's . 1. In a world that is telling you that everything is rushing, the least you can do for yourself as a young woman, is to learn to take your time and be gentle with yourself.
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I was 11 years old, I came home crying bcz my classmates made fun of me. My grandmother smoking her cigarette, yelled from her bench: you don't have a mouth? When they laughed at you, why didn't you laugh at them harder?. Since that day, people go low, and I go underground.
What’s the best advice you’ve taken from a Black woman that is older than you?.
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When I heard Nina Simone say in an interview: " the people who built their heaven on your land, are telling yours is in the sky". I was never the same. White christianism stopped appealing to Mr.
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No woman has ever died from being unmarried or not partnered. But we have a long list of women dead killed by their husbands; partners. And women with health issues from being in wrong marriages. Please sisters better be alive crying alone ooooh!.
Feminism convinced women they could have it all. Now they’re 40, independent, and crying in a very nice empty apartment.
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I don't think Africans understands how big, huge what the President of Burkina Faso just did. He canceled the non taxation agreed Burkina had with France since 1967. This was among the longest colonial agreements France imposed to its colonies before granting them independence.
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Namibia has a woman President and a woman Vice-President . Periodt!!!.
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This video annoyed me because every single african leader who tried to set Africa free was killed: Marien Ngouabi, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Jonas Savimbi, Princeton Louis Rwagasore, Lari Ben Mhidi, Ruben Umnyobe, Felix Roland Moumié , Pierre Mulele, Maurice Mpolo.
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When I worked in a refugee camp and both the security guards and UNHCR staff were molesting and sexually harassing young girls. I witness how no one in this world including the institutions that claim gender equality, participate actively in the violence towards women and girls.
What radicalized you?.
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What is not spoken about the war in Congo is that rape is being used as a weapon of war. DRC has been described as the capital city of Rape. Women and girls are going through the worse.
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I am still stuck that a 3year old was raped twice and the community shamed the mother for killing the rapist. Women even as infants, cannot escape patriarchal violence.
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I am sorry but no african city is like Nairobi and I have been to 34 african countries 🥹🥹. I love it here!.
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I still cannot believe in the midst of Ghana government and Kenya government killing and imprisoning citizens who were protesting, the Presidents went to New York and got awards for good leadership. Africans rise up as you are truly on your own.
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Kenyans are truly showing the rest of Africa that truly IT'S TIME FOR A RESISTANCE!!!!!!!!.
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Belgium in colonizing Congo killed about 5 million Congolese in 3 months. Germany in colonizing Burundi killed thousands burundians who resisted.France did the same all over Africa. These mass murders through slavery and colonialism were GENOCIDE even when they are not recognized.
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So you people fast for a man, then fast for that man to marry y'all then later in the marriage, you continue to fast for the man to be faithful. I am wondering when do you ever eat and rejoice while just eating.
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2. under patriarchy is hard but learn to decenter romantic love. Dream, imagine your life as a whole with or without romantic love. Practice it. It's a practice because the heart is involved and sometimes you act against your own reason. And when you do, be kind to yourself.
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4. My dear, truth be told in your 20's you are a child in an adult life. You are literally coming into adulthood and those are your first years. So like a baby learn and grow, treat your 20's as your baby age of adulthood. You need help from adults around you. Ask for help.
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3. At 21, I started a non profit. At 27, I left the non profit as a founder and went to do other things. Don't confine yourself into one thing. Let your 20's be the time you discover your skills, embrace different parts of yourself. Don't limit yourself. The world will do that.
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Please apartheid wasn't that long ago. So please don't allow sons and daughters of apartheid creators to rewrite history today. Our ancestors fought with their lives. Always remember their blood!.
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We are in 2022 and honestly abolish african summits happening outside of Africa. Why are Africans travelling to Europe to attend a summit about Africa. What in the name of modern colonialism is that?.
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She unleashed a beast because I became the student who wasn't even taking crap from teachers. I stood up against teachers many times. It got me in trouble but my grandmother was always proud. She repeated to me: always speak your mind. Say it unashamed.
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The non taxation agreement guaranteed that any French multinational or company operating in Burkina would pay its taxes in France and not in Burkina. Now after 56 years, Burkina has ended it, obliging any French multinationals in Burkina to pay its taxes to Burkina or leave.
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The people of Mali were in the streets of Bamako for 6 months until President IBK resigned. Kenyans, may you persevere. As long as you stay resisting, you are winners. #rejectingthefinancebill2024.
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6. This is for the difficult young women. The loud, the annoying, the bold, the defiant, the outsiders, if you can double up your boundaries, continue setting your standards higher for yourself and everyone around you. In a world that gives less to women, YOU BETTER ASK MORE.
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I applied for online visa to Cameroon & Guinea and Kenya the same day. Cameroon took three days.Guinea took 1 hour.Kenya took three weeks and was approved two days after the day I was supposed to travel. I was so so impressed with Guinea.
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France's imaginary superpower relies on continuous exploitation of its colonies through imposed colonial agreements. I hope theee countries continue to try breaking free. Better fail trying!.
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Have you all seen the protests happening in South Africa for a 7 year old who was raped? Let's all offer our solidarity to South African women and girls. Also a young woman in Italy was stabbed by her stalker for not smiling at him. Italian women been tweeting about it.
Do feminist really hate men or they just pretending ?.
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I love dangerous women. I love untamed, not respectable, outspoken, doing whatever the hell they want, women!. I love women who every day resist, refuse to participate in their own oppression. I love women who try as much to free themselves from societal expectations.
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Israel.
Which country would you never visit, even if the trip was free?.
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I am not Nigerian and I learned about Natasha from fellow Nigerian feminists who have been tweeting about it since yesterday. As always feminists are never silent.
I have seen multiple tweets disparaging feminists for their alleged ‘silence’ regarding Senator Natasha's situation. It appears to be a coordinated effort, possibly paid, with the intention to divide, disrupt & divert attention from the issue. I hope we collectively ignore them.
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Senegalese literature is the best thing to ever happen to the continent. The most panafrican, decolonial, archivist works and writing of both pre-colonial and colonized africa are there, in the words of:.- Ousmane Sembene.- Cheikh Anta Diop.- Aminata Sow Fall.-Mariama Ba.
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I hate how African women married and partnered to African revolutionaries were written into history. Pauline Lumumba was literally reduced to te widow who protested naked when her husband Patrice was murdered. Meanwhile she had before that organized anti-colonial protests.
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Namibia elected a woman president. President Netumbo is a freedom fighter who fought against apartheid. She is a feminist who advocated immensely for the rights of african women and rights. She deserves it!!!.
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And when you pray tonight, pray for the discipline and commitment to do what you said you must do for yourself. Self betrayal ain't a way to thrive.
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5. I wish I had an advice on how to choose your career. Honestly I find myself doing what I do now. But i allowed myself the chances to try so many things. That also requires self honesty. Learn as early as you can to be honest with yourself of things that not longer suit you.
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During Uyinene's funeral, her mother told her: I warned you about anything and anywhere but I am sorry I forgot to tell you about the post office. Uyinene was killed during daylight at the post office. Women can never be safe even if they try harder.
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11. My 20's also showed me how much I can harm others and also ways I can harm myself as well. But I learned that one must take responsibility . It takes immense self awareness to accept that one can be a victim and also the villain at the same time. Do better next time.
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Ooh Kwame Nkrumah you were truly right. Neo-colonialism is indeed the last stage of imperialism. I hope the good people of Ghana rises and fight for their land, for their country and especially against any classed segregated communities.
A US-born woman, now residing in Ghana, is spearheading an initiative to create a diaspora community, having purchased a substantial tract of land. She plans to subdivide the property and offer plots for sale to individuals interested in joining the community.
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But the unification of Africa cannot be built on homophobia. He needs to let go of his homophobic stance!.
Ibrahim Traore is making moves towards the unification of Africa ✊🏽.
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See how they are rewriting history under our eyes. None of the African states was granted independence on a silver platter, they fought for it, resisted for it while the empire plotted against each independence. But Peter has a different story for us.
Holding Queen Elizabeth personally responsible for colonialism when her reign oversaw basically the entirely of decolonization is… certainly a take.
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I have never seen a man come online to tell us about the difficulties he has had in his marriage and how much he sacrificed his happiness. It's only women.
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Sharing nudes of someone after they shared them with you in privacy is targeted sexual violence. It is a violation of someone's privacy. And we need to stop sustaining a culture that tolerates such violence.
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Me and my natural hair, speaking at high level events and addressing world leaders with my 4C hair!
@EcheXCVI Nobody says natural hair is bad. But can you go to events with your natural hair? An envent that you have a function to run?. You can be at your natural look when at home but for an occasion, look your best.
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12. I wish it was spoken enough on how a huge part of your 20's as a young woman, your well-being and survival requires unlearning. You will unlearn so much that at some point you coul feel lost and unaware of who you are. Hold on, you are coming to yourself in new ways.
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10. It's true what they say about your late twenties. You are more solid of yourself, you start liking yourself more. You know of yourself a little bit much than your early 20's. So hold on as you navigate your early 20's. It gets better.
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22. Please wear that miniskirt, go have that 4am drink. Stay up until the next day. Please make all the irrational decisions you can me. That's what your 20's are for. I stress when I see girls in their 20's in the rich aunty trend. Please that time will come. Age will come.
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8. One of the hardest lesson I learned as a feminist organizer was that so many of the people I thought were my community, weren't. Because a community requires a shared love, care, grace and as a bell hooks said a constant practice to maintain bonds than sever them.
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The lady said I should understand because one of the servers who was racist is apparently a Ukrainian who survived the war. Do they know how many wars some of us have lived through, yet we don't go around being shittu human beings.
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15. I don't know how to shout this buy I urge young women to practice saying NO. In a world that throws niceness to women, learn how to say No, of course in a safer way. But say No often, say No a lot. Say just no, don't explain it. Let your No be as easy as your yes.
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17. I have learned two things about friendships that sustain me:. - they are the loveliest of all love and if cultivated well, they bring you closer to an unconditional love. But it takes work. -most of them are seasonal. Know when you have outgrown and make room for new ones.
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9. Building community is hard especially in a world that teaches us to love and care for people based on what they offer us. I am still practicing but I am doing my best to build friendships based on aligned values,intentional care, shared communal vision. Like I said, it's hard.
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Remember the Dutch embassy told Sudanese who had their passports at the embassy, to go and get new passports since they had to evacuate. The french embassy shredded the passports of Sudanese who were waiting for visas and evacuated their embassy staff. In the middle of war!!.
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7. This is for the young women who are innovators, building things from scratch. I know how hard it is to build a whole business, organization from absolutely nothing then later as it gets visible, have folks be entitled with zero knowledge at what it takes. Stand your ground!.
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What broke my heart was that girls were being forced to sleep with these men who are social workers in the camp to have access to things like sanitary pads so they don't use used clothes and suffer from infections. What I saw in that refugee camp, shaped me.
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I personally think the weekend should be 3 days. We need at least 72 hours.
What is your honest take on LGBTQ and Homosexuality??. Your honest take.
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Say no as often as possible. In fact say so much No that No becomes your identity. It will save you unnecessary headache.
Girl to girl. .
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May this new year be a year Palestine is free, Sudan is liberated from Tyranny, Congo is liberated and people continue to rally behind a world safe for all.
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We are in 2022, and a white man is the President of African parks. And that white man is a royal dude part of a royal family that colonized and looked Africa. Very very very nice.
President Kagame received Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, who visited Rwanda as part of his work as President of African Parks. The Government of Rwanda has agreements with African Parks to manage Akagera and Nyungwe National Parks.
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She isn't stupid. She is catering to the white supremacy gaze.
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18. still on friendships. Never assume your friend knows the support you need. As much as life can be hard on you, it can also be hard on them. Let them know, continue to let them know , very often a good friend will match your energy and efforts and be of support.
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British colonialism was horribly aggressive but also gaslighting. They created upper classes who were puppets of colonialism. So the evil done,always looked like it's a collaboration between England and colonized lands. They raised a generation of Africans who romanticize England.
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In the past 3 weeks, my partner and I have been to Luxembourg, Brussels, Portugal (Lisbon and Cascais), Greece( Mykonos, Santorini and Paros), Spain(Ibiza, Barcelona and Madrid) and Italy (Milan,Venice, Florence, Rome and Napoli). And in each of this city, we have a racist story.
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This account believes any woman and a pregnant person who needs an abortions should have it safely with no if or but.
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27. Ooh darling under patriarchy all women are whores. There is absolutely nothing you can do as much as you are trying hard to please it. Forget about being a good or bad girl, be a woman after your own heart. However that looks to others, be comfortable with the judgment.
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29. To close this thread. I have had the best 20's. I am excited for 29 . I only regret the laughter I missed, the joys I ignored, the rest I didn't indulge, the dances I missed, the hugs I missed.
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13. Eventually I have had to accept that so much pain that I have had to endure in my 20's wasn't really worth. Truly I could have learned what I learned in more gentle ways. Some of the trauma is unecessary but I guess it's life. But there is always better days. Believe it.
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25. After everything is said and done, you know yourself better than anyone. You have lived with yourself all these years. Don't let no one convince that they know what's best for you. You are your best thing and as your best thing, you know what's best for you. Stand on it.
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Books really make our world bearable. For once, you can open pages and be presented another reality. I am grateful for books.
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What’s your favourite feminist quote?.
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Ooh Havana, I hope you get to think of me as much as I will be thinking ot you. Cuba was a joy💕
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You are your very best thing. Treat yourself accordingly with delicacy, care, and grace. Repeat even when you feel unworthy until it's wired in your brain, and there is nothing else you can accept from yourself, let alone others.
Girl to girl. .
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I dated a Nigerian man that I stressed so much to the point one day he looked at me and said: you are the last east african woman I will date. Sometimes I think about it and laugh . He also called me a Burundian witch still every year, would ask me back. Men don't like peace.
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21. I really want to emphasize taking your time. It's passing but make the most out of it. Worry less about tomorrow because when tomorrow arrives you will question why you spent your yesterday thinking of it . I will miss my 20's. I regret the moments I didn't devour properly.
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23. The biggest part of my late 20's was making my parents understand that I could never be the daughter in their head but we could find a common ground. Your late 20's is to also realize your parents are aging and you must compromise to make the most of the short time. It's okay.
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You must understand how you also participate in the patriarchy and slowly unlearn that. Your liberation is also rooted in unlearning misogyny and giving other women, the space and grace to do so.
Feminism 101:.
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I am not comfortable with the fear projections y'all are throwing on Elsa by letting her know she has spoken against a person who is an institution. She already knows that. She also knows why she deleted that post. The minimum we can do is salute her courage and wish her the best.
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14. My appearance has always been an ongoing self debate. I have hated how I look, some days adored my body. Then one day I chose to practice self loving myself. It is not a one time event. It is a journey. It is a routine. It's a process. I am not there yet. I am working on it.
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Joseph Okito, Amilcar Cabral, John Chilembwe, Rampersad Surath, Fareed Mutur, Eduardo Mondlane, Chris Hani, David Sibeko, Herbert Chitepo, Joe Ggapi, . The list is endless!.
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Please unfollow me very quick bcz two things I don't believe in are: White Africans and white Africans. There is no such thing. There are colonizers who violently stole the african land. Even generations after, they remain such. Kindly unfollow me and don't argue in my mentions.
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I have been to 36 african countries and this is my third time in Lusaka. Zambian are the most welcoming and full of good energy people I have met on this continent. It's always easy and warm to be in their country.
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28. Lastly dear young african women, please read, read as if your life depends on it. The more you know, the more possibilities you can imagine.
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I am not okay. I don't think any of us can be after a watching a video of a father who operated on his son without anesthesia then watched the son dies from the agony. What a vile world we live in. What Palestine are going through is indescribable. I am so sorry.
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24. Eventually your 20's will teach you how to deal with envy and jealousy. You start exposed to your agemates doing better than you, your friends thriving more than you. Envy is a normal feeling. It reminds you that you also deserve better. But if managed wrong, it is dangerous.
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Wait until you hear that most of the men you celebrate as African revolutionaries were abusing their wives, traumatizing their children.
My father @NgugiWaThiongo_ physically abused my late mother – he would beat her up. Some of my earliest memories are me going to visit her at my grandmother’s where she would seek refuge. But with that said it is the silencing of who she was that gets me. Ok- I have said it.
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20. given a second chance, there are things i would do differently in my early 20's. I will give enough space to hobbies. I will read more books as today life responsibilities are kicking my back. I will love the friends who passed away more harder. I will focus on the moment.
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19. If you are in your early 20's, the money you want to make will eventually start flowing by your late 20's. It's recently that I started making a sustainable income. most of your mates are dealing with the same hard economy, you are not alone.
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I just spent 3 weeks in Europe and truly I prefer America racism . It's blunt, loud and clear. These microagressions and acting as if a black person is not there or you don't see us, I can't stand it. Be racist with your chest and assume it.
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16. Unfortunately I am a young african woman occupying spaces that are often occupied by either young white women or older african women. I have had to show up twice harder and build a body of work that speaks for me. My success is my work ethic. Have an excellent work ethic.
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