Posts tagged ancestors
Salaga Slave Market
Salaga Slave Market

Tracing the roots of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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CULTURE, TRAVELOGUES, ANCESTRAL HEALINGYamuna Flahertyghana, transatlantic slave trade, slave trade, gonja, dagomba, tourism, hausa, portrait, history, black history, africa, identity, salaga, northern region, portugeuse, black lives matter, black bodies, racism, intergenerational trauma, healing, slow travel, slow movement, slow living, slow down, conscious living, ancestors, ancestral threads, blm, saidiya hartman, lose your mother, lose your mother saidya hartman, lose your mother slaveryComment
Ritual Head Shaving
Ritual Head Shaving

Offering my hair at a temple in India

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CULTURE, INDIA, MEMOIR, ANCESTRAL HEALINGYamuna FlahertyIndia, photo essay, street photography, documentary photography, ancestors, rituals, traditions, culture, tamil nadu, tiruvanamalai, head shaving, tonsure, tonsuring, sacred hair cut, letting go, spiritual transformation, release, Tribe de Mama, slow travel, slow living, slow down, conscious living, spirituality, annamalayair temple, sacred living, head shaving stories, tonsure stories, head shave woman, mundan ceremony, tonsure ceremony, head shave woman india, ancestral healing, ancestral threads, headshave india, headshave stories, headshave stories women, headshave stories india, hair sacrifice india, tamil nadu tonsure, temple offering indiaComment