Afro Love | Centering Blackness

Greetings, Beautiful Beings, Bienvenido!!

It has been a while since i graced you all with my presence. I am so grateful for our jelly of all trades, yasmine! They are a dream come true streamlining all our administrativeness. Hopefully that translates to more predictability. Although we both get much joy from the constant changes and ability to go with the flow of the moment.

As usual, I am coming to you all with what is heavy on my heart. As many of you are aware I been breaking the harmful cycles of my lineage. Lately i been thinking about romance and becoming a parent which led to inter-ethnic child bearing, specially Afro-European kids. My family has had lots of consentual and not, sex with European settlers, me included. Which led to lots of abortions and one abortion that acted slowly, the child died shortly after birth. That is the closest my family has come to Afro-European offspring. I started to wonderful if i am going to break that cycle and what implications that has.

Growing up I dreamed for milano babies and lighter skin depictions of myself. In this moment, I love myself, and everything African about me. I have developed some genuine romances with European settlers, although that dream will have to transform to adoption. I want to give birth to fuller reflections of myself. I now value the uniqueness and fortitude of African heritage. The importance of mono-ethnicity. With that, I do have one great great great grandparent on each side who is non-African, non-European. So my lineage does include Indigenous Turtle Islander and Cuban within the last 6 generations.

Making my way through the harmful family patterns, I am starting to notice the quality habits of my lineage. The parts i want to keep, nourish and pass on. Here at Artistic Apothecary we strive to create a inclusive depiction of multi-culturalism that includes dark-skin peoples. The videos below go in further on the urgency for such spaces as we live in a society that deflates and lightens us as African peoples.