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Black Love Always

December 06, 2019 by Ikeranda Smith in black, LGBTQIA, life, love, marriage, queer, relationships, spirituality

When I decided to love you I asked the Creator one thing + that was to sustain our love. To give us back every year that our parents spent separated + divorced due to addiction. I asked for intentional presence that despite every hurdle we drew closer together. Proximity is everything with you! I asked for us to dwell in love + even when it seemed difficult that it would surface in the last place we put it.

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December 06, 2019 /Ikeranda Smith
black woman, black love, love, loveislove, self love, womenofcolor
black, LGBTQIA, life, love, marriage, queer, relationships, spirituality
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Divine

March 12, 2019 by Ikeranda Smith in black, LGBTQIA, love, life, loveislove, marriage, people of color, purpose, relationships, spirituality, women of color

I consciously live in color as it relates to my relationship with my wife. Intentionally dissecting the effort, it takes to love another human being. Regularly our conversations consist of what it takes to make a marriage work when we have never witnessed a successful union. Frequently, we communicate the pain that stains our perspective as we contemplate the route we should take to unhinge our own wills. Often we forgive fully understanding that love is a choice + we don’t always get to decide on how we get to distribute it. It’s eerily complicated! A space only those who dare reside can humbly admit, it’s everything you hoped + nothing like you ever expected.

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March 12, 2019 /Ikeranda Smith
loveislove, black love, womenofcolor, LGBTQIA, love, life, black, marriage, relationships
black, LGBTQIA, love, life, loveislove, marriage, people of color, purpose, relationships, spirituality, women of color
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Celebration Of Women

September 24, 2018 by Ikeranda Smith in women of color, queer, life, womensupportingwomen

Oh how I love being a woman! When I think of our pulchritudinous splendor, the ability to bring lives into the world, and how we are built like countries, I am reminded of an immigrant exiled from their home. Lost but not forgotten. The amazing truth is that most women don’t know who they are because of one simple truism…we have given away our power!

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September 24, 2018 /Ikeranda Smith
women, womenofcolor, queerwomenofcolor, celebrationofwomen, love, womb, magic, wombwork, healingourwomb
women of color, queer, life, womensupportingwomen
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Doing What I Love

September 03, 2018 by Ikeranda Smith in leadership, careers, queer

I acquired my education with a deliberate intention to do something that I loved. It was necessary to have more than just a paycheck that carried the weight of an unfulfilled adult with tons of student loan debt. It was essential that I made more than an obscene amount of money, because I watched people “forget”. You know the people that get a touch of amnesia when they have acquired that particular number in their bank account; yet they can’t seem to remember what it feels like to want to make a difference. It was imperative for me to live in service because I have witnessed the benefits of doing magnanimous deeds. It was one of my non-negotiables, an unwavering fervor to do things that brought me immense joy!

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September 03, 2018 /Ikeranda Smith
purpose, goals, careers, business, leadership, womenofcolor, queerwomenofcolor
leadership, careers, queer
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