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Anna-Maria Poku

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‘Love in Colour’ is the reason I embrace love loudly

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January 27, 2023

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For the final essay in our series, Nadira Begum ha

For the final essay in our series, Nadira Begum has written an ode to Joan Didion’s breathtaking work that explores living with grief.

“Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.” - Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

📚 The Passage That Changed Me is a series, curated by Kya Buller, in partnership with @galdemzine. This series is a short collection of essays by people or colour from marginalised genders, celebrating the power of literature, each piece will illuminate a writers personal response to a chooses literary text, exploring why it moved them, what path it set them on and how it changed the trajectory of their lives.

If you love love, then this one’s for you. @anna

If you love love, then this one’s for you. @annasreads celebrates the joy and warmth of being a hopeless romantic - and the transformative power of giving in to love, rather than resisting its pull.

“Love is tender, tentative, brutal and bold. It’s messy and magic! It can be the most frightening thing in the world, purely because it feels like safety, and that safety is reliant on total trust in another, with whom we share our hearts, expose ourselves and allow ourselves to be seen for exactly who we are. But when we allow ourselves to trust like this, there is a freedom that we can attain – a glory. This book is about being seen in all your iterations, in every dynamic, brightly and in colour. It’s about the joy and hope that accompanies the celebration of that phenomenon.” - Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour

📚 The Passage That Changed Me is a series, curated by Kya Buller, in partnership with @galdemzine. This series is a short collection of essays by people or colour from marginalised genders, celebrating the power of literature, each piece will illuminate a writers personal response to a chooses literary text, exploring why it moved them, what path it set them on and how it changed the trajectory of their lives.

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Slide 1: Anna-Maria Poku, subject’s own

For the third instalment of our series, @sheetal_m

For the third instalment of our series, @sheetal_mist05 describes finding the right book at the right time - and what it taught her about mental health, power and purpose.

“I know it hasn’t been that long but this is what I have been able to see since then: things do happen. Terrible things. The only thing any of us get to do is decide whether they happen to us or if, at least in part, they happen for us…And I wonder, is there any way you could come to see that what you’ve been through is for something? Is it why you feel everything and love harder and fight more ferociously than anyone else?” - Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

📚 The Passage That Changed Me is a series, curated by Kya Buller, in partnership with @galdemzine. This series is a short collection of essays by people or colour from marginalised genders, celebrating the power of literature, each piece will illuminate a writers personal response to a chooses literary text, exploring why it moved them, what path it set them on and how it changed the trajectory of their lives.

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Slide 1: Sheetal Mistry, subject’s own

For the second instalment of our series, @helengan

For the second instalment of our series, @helenganya explores notions of identity, belonging, and the ways in which food can be the ultimate expression of love.

“I remember these things, clearly, because that was how my mother loved you, not through white lies, and constant verbal affirmation, but in subtle observations of what brought you joy, pocketed away to make you feel comforted and cared for without even realising it. She remembered if you liked stews with extra broth, if you were sensitive to spice, if you hated tomatoes, If you didn’t eat seafood, if you had a large appetite.” - Michelle Zauner

📚 The Passage That Changed Me is a series, curated by Kya Buller, in partnership with @galdemzine. This series is a short collection of essays by people or colour from marginalised genders, celebrating the power of literature, each piece will illuminate a writers personal response to a chooses literary text, exploring why it moved them, what path it set them on and how it changed the trajectory of their lives.

— photo credits —
Slide 1: Helen Ganya by Nicole Ngai
Slide 2: Michelle Zauner by Peter Ash Lee

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