A Sigma Love Story - Octavia Tanisha Renee Shaw. RIP 1/1/1989 - 3/17/2012.
Photos of Birmingham’s Afro-Caribbean Community in the 1950s, taken by Dyche Photography Studio, Birmingham, UK.
From Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe by Tina M. Campt (Duke University Press, 2012). Courtesy Birmingham City Library, UK.
Now when I see “love your body” I feel conscious of the fact that it is not that simple for people. Idk, some people have dysphoria and such. I guess what might be better is “no weight or shape makes your unattractive” or something.
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
Lao Tzu.
Photo by Biswajit Das.










