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Welcome to cancer season, humans. 🌊 💦 🐢 🦀 🐋 🐚 🌻 🌍 You gotta feel to heal.

36th rotation around the sun☀️. •
Happy b-earthday to me.
Happy solstice + new moon to all of us.
Happy Baba’s day to all the babas out there, especially my most tender rolemodel of a Baba.
And happy Indigenous People’s Day to First

The seeds keep blooming. Life insists. An infinite miracle of the earth. Where you steadily give a little + get the literal world in return mashallah 🧿. Because we seek to dignify life, liberate land, manifest justice, create new worlds, let us lear

We know state sponsored murder too well. We know ethnic cleansing. We know the grief of loss. What it feels like when our death becomes common place. Too persistent to count, to care. What it feels like to be inside of that consistently. To sow life

Seeking consolation 🌊
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I haven’t shown my face here for a good minute. So I searched a little and found a smile for you all today. Unmasked for a moment to breathe prayers on the ocean. Offer flowers. See the colors of light reflecting o

People seem amused by my mom’s straight forward scorpio edges dissatisfaction with my job not-so-well-done on the rose jam last week, so why not share another one. Me, my mom, and my sister rolled these grape-leaves together today. She said tha

When your #yarrow becomes magically pink 😭💕! I’ve always extra loved soft pink yarrows and wished for some, and now mine has shape shifted 🥰.
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Loki my bff but also kinda naughty doggie was caught in my yarrow bed a couple weeks ago, wh

Emerging from Nun. Because water is the begining. ن. Doesn’t it look like Nefertum some how? #waterislife #originalmedicine #hub4hub #swanaancestral

An homage to Nefertum’s deep and gentle 🌱💦🧿. To the origin of us and of all. To our re-membrance, where only the truth remains and all else falls away. Nothing true can be truly taken. •
SWANA circle of re-membrance, this one for us ❤️.

@swana.ancestral or #hub4hub to follow our Ancestor HUB:

Selam, dear ones. Vadi Arzu here. I’ve had the honor of managing + co-curating the SWANA Ancestral HUB IG for the last little while. Such a privilege to be able to hold space / cross pollinate with our radiantly diverse HUB community + a warm t

During this holy month, we reflect on how many of our cultural holidays have radically shifted in practice this year. From some of the most social + communal months in our region to those of isolation. But we are adapting & finding ways to be in

Hi there. I am Layla. A child of the northern coast + southern mountains of Lebanon, born + raised on the indigenous lands of the Tongva-Tataviam peoples known as Los Angeles, California. I currently live between these two homes, spending a large maj

WE ARE DOING SOMETHING NEW + EXCITING! Social media takeovers! Every week, HUB kin will take over our IG account & share from themselves

We will also use this opportunity to introduce you to each of us with a weekly bio post about the folks behi

We are really excited to share a couple of short films we archived on the HUB website earlier this month

Thank you to @chaikhanamedia for your generosity in bringing these films to a larger audience

Both short documentaries follow traditional spiri

Reflecting on these simple pleasures that stem from deep wisdom as shared by SWANA kin @vivien.sansour:
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“According to Palestinian wisdom there are only two things we need to survive: flour and oil. And God knows we have experienced a lot

In honor of the resilience of intergenerational genocide survivors on the 105th anniversary of the Armenian + Assyrian + Anatolian Greek genocide, we share a beautiful post from our dear HUB kin @desert_seeds. We re-member with you. We celebrate your

So many of our plans have changed. Our futures have become uncertain. Many of us in diaspora were preparing to return to homelands. Today we share from HUB kin @noddingthistleandrosemilk, as she connects to #plancestors through memory to soothe the a

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