PHENOMXNAL WOMXN. CELEBRATING WOMXN AROUND THE WORLD.
ON THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN AND THE FORMATION OF A TOGOLESE IDENTITY
Throughout my travels, I have met a lot of phenomenal women. When I first started RAW TRVL, I had a series where I would feature everyday women doing extraordinary things. I would usually use the gram as my main source for finding the women that I would feature, doing my …
AN INTRODUCTION TO REPRESENTATION AND WHY I AM HERE
Being raised in a predominantly white society in North America, I was surrounded by people that didn’t look like me. My mother, being Filipina, had much lighter skin than I did, and my friends, being white, did as well. For years I would walk the streets of my neighbourhood seeing …
BOSHIA: THE EVOLUTION OF YOUNG MUSLIMAH
“People have a perspective of Islam, and so [Uploaded] is about showing the many sides of Muslims and showing that we are human. We struggle, we have things that we go through.” Boshia Rae-Jean is not your everyday woman. She is a black Muslim femcee and is unapologetic about …
AIESHA ROBINSON: IN HER SKIN
“You have vitiligo, you can’t change that, so it’s either you loath in self-pity, or you do something about it. Turn your negative into a positive.” Those are the words that turned Aiesha Robinson’s life around. I met Aiesha nearly ten years ago. At the time, we were both …
UPCLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH YOKOCOCO
“NOTHING ABOUT OUR STORY BEGAN IN A COMFORTABLE PLACE. WE WOULD LIKE WOMEN TO SEE THAT TRAVEL AND PERSONAL GOALS ARE POSSIBLE, EVEN WHEN YOU START FROM A SHIT PLACE OR YOU SIMPLY DON’T HAVE THE TIME.” I FIRST CAME ACROSS ASHLEY AND BRITTNIE, THE FOUNDERS AND BADASS WOMYN …
BEYOND MY HIJAB: MALIHA ABIDI
I USED TO HATE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. I FOUND THAT IT BROUGHT OUT THE WORST OF PEOPLE, THAT IT WAS A SUPERFICIAL WORLD, A PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO HIDE BEHIND THEIR COMPUTERS AND BUILD UP THEIR EGOS. OK SURE, THERE’S STILL A LOT OF THAT, BUT THERE’S ALSO A LOT …
INTO EGYPT WITH AMAL EL MASLOUT
I TRIED SOMETHING DIFFERENT THIS WEEK AND DECIDED TO CONTACT AMAL ALTHOUGH WE HAD NEVER HAD ANY TYPE OF INTERACTION BEFORE BEYOND FOLLOWING AND LIKING HER IMAGES ON INSTAGRAM. I WASN’T SURE WHAT TO EXPECT, THIS COULD GO WELL OR REALLY SOUR, I THOUGHT. LUCKILY, IT WAS THE FORMER. …
TO BE MALEBO
IT ALL STARTED WITH A PHOTO. I MET MALEBO AT A PSYTRANCE PARTY IN CAPE TOWN CALLED JUNGALA. SHE CAME UP TO ME WITH HER PHONE AND SHOWED ME A PHOTO THAT SHE HAD TAKEN OF ME, TELLING ME THAT I LOOKED ‘TOO GOOD NOT TO SEE IT.’ FLATTERED, I …
A PORTRAIT OF TANYA WEEKES
I CONNECTED WITH BLOGGER, WEDDING AND PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER, TANYA WEEKES, ABOUT A MONTH AGO THROUGH INSTAGRAM. I LOVED HER PORTRAITS AND THE TRANQUILITY IN HER PHOTOS, THE SOFT TONES AND COLOURS THAT SHE CAPTURED SO EFFORTLESSLY. I WAS ALWAYS VERY INTRIGUED BY THE PHOTOS OF HERSELF, WHICH I LATER FOUND …
