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The Journey Begins

Posted on March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 by intheshapeofaneagle

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

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Here's a page from my Thing about Swing zine for #InternationalDanceDay (which was yesterday my bad)✌🏿

Quite obsessed with this teeny weeny mini-mini version of my Edges zine that now lives in a dollshouse made by @blackgirldollshouseclub 🥰

Hi friends 💕 For the last year I've been volunteering with the Sickle Cell Society on their exhibition and oral history project, Our Journey Our Story. The heartbreaking deaths of Evan Nathan Smith and Richard Okorogheye have shown, again, how little sickle cell is understood and how much it's overlooked. It's so frustrating. Sickle cell is so deeply intertwined with the history of the UK, with the NHS and health disparities and with 'unexplained' deaths in police custody. The exhibition is online for the time being at the @bcaheritage website. Head to @ourjourney_ourstory for the link and take a look if you have a moment! Peace xx

Since we're on the topic of Kinky, here's some sheet music from 1908 I found in the NY Public Library Digital Collection (free to peruse btw!) This song called Kinky was popularised by Aida Overton Walker, one of the most well known African American vaudeville performers both in the US AND here in England (that's most likely a drawing of her on the front of the score). She's probs most well known as the 'Queen of the Cakewalk', a style of dance that was born on plantations and mimics white enslavers' walks (basically taking the piss out of how stiff they were). Aida frequently performed in drag too, dressing in her late husband's costumes.

K is for Kinky.

Happy Mother's Day to my style icon 🌺

Hello long time no see! Here are some of the women featured in my Thing About Swing zine since it's IWD and all 💞

J is for joy. January has been trash ❤️ so here are a few little things that brought me joy this month.

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