THE PINK PURSE INTERNATIONAL STORY (#PINKPURSEINTL)

by Fey Ugokwe This world is full of noise and some people live to bring it to you—swooping in, trying to peck at your head with their upside down conceptions of you. And they can be so cool/casual on approach…or not…be they bestie or enemy, blood fam or just some mouthy stranger buzzing past you in the planetary streets. Some are self-esteem hunters so talented that they only need tap one pinhole into your mindset to make your whole sense of youness crack, splinter, break. My  🇬🇾 Grandmum used to say that they’re addicts, like any other—but that their fix is (paraphrasing here) the energies of pain, agony, and strife generated by others as they fall. She also said they can smell you and all your vulnerabilities from across a crowded room…yeah, that part. So keep your wits about you as you navigate all the spaces on this globe, my friends—energy shields up (i.e. protecting your peace), positive thoughts activated, and remembering *who and what* you are (energy lovingly transferre...

     📸IG: @ambi_reads by Fey  🎥:   @feyugokweesq 🇬🇧🇬🇾🇳🇬🇺🇸 🌎:  https://linktr.ee/feyugokwe.esq Hey, man!!🏝 June may have jumped (see what I did there?😂), but imo every month should be #readcaribbean month—we’re a people, not just a moment. So *do* make sure to add our works to your virtual or irl bookshelf as the summer rolls on! Here’s what I wrote about one of our cool Caribbean bookstagrammers on IG (whose recs will be sure to keep your beach reads well-covered): 🏝Now, what’s better for your juicy beach reads list than pages full of sweeping Caribbean imagery or winking intrigue? As you soak up summer🌞into your skin, soul✨, consider adding these #readcaribbean recommendations from another book bestie, 🇹🇹Trini’s 🇹🇹@ambi_reads!👏 A fierce list—also featuring 🇹🇹Trinidadian authors. Well done!!💃🏽#caribbeanreads

              🎥IG: @theonlybagirayouknow by Fey  🎥:   @feyugokweesq 🇬🇧🇬🇾🇳🇬🇺🇸 🌎:  https://linktr.ee/feyugokwe.esq Caribbean Heritage Month has brought with it the whirling richness that is the cultural diversity throughout the Caribbean nations/we peoples of Caribbean heritage—and our captivating, creative works. Here’s my 6/20 Instagram post on one of🌴our amazing artists, from a seemingly magical island just off the coast of my Mum’s native South America—but also nestled in the geographical Caribbean itself:  #Art.🎨It’s mixed up in living without breathing itself, can lure & reel & haunt without hunting…and storytells histories & moments & movements without a word well-placed, or misplaced, or pinned. It’s a reality play, played out in flecks & glints & visual whispers…It is what it is what you *perceive* it is. And it is all a magic✨.  This #CaribbeanHeritageMonth, I salute the truly keen ...

              📸IG: @orlandospringbreakfast   by Fey  🎥:   @feyugokweesq 🇬🇧🇬🇾🇳🇬🇺🇸 🌎:  https://linktr.ee/feyugokwe.esq Yes, *is* true—Caribbean Heritage Month has only one-and-a-small-piece weeks of wine💃🏽 remaining, so get out there and enjoy the truly 🔥 ongoing festivities if you’re a fellow Caribe/lover of the same. *All we* family under one palm tree🌴  —no matter what your flag(s) of heritage! Here’s my 6/2 🎥Instagram post about this truly historic🎉moon: 🥳Yes, man!! June, by official government proclamation, is 🥁Caribbean Heritage Month here in the 🇺🇸States (📸IG: @orlandospringbreakfast Follow them on IG!)! It’s time to commemorate & celebrate the dazzling contributions that people of our vast Caribbean diaspora have made, to this wondrous, welcoming nation. During the past few years, we’ve accelerated, at warp drive, our representation at all levels of society—particularly in prominent government ...

by Fey   https://linktr.ee/feyugokwe.esq But it is life, here, that often moves against our currents—breaking too bad against our vessels to turn, tip, take them down, waterlogging our navigation, making us change course. We come to this planet prepped n’ ready to sail all the big tides and reach, walk hard on, all the shifting shores—but we each, we all, hit *walls*. So the question always is, what do you do when it does that? The answer is to right that ship, luv, and snatch *all* your power back.  I caught up with the ever-amazeballs #survivor, giver, live-r that it is holistic wellness influencer, IG’s @livi.love.xo , to chat all things #up—like...the vegan crush that’s turned her kitchen into a mini-corporate food lab, the tea on the luxe salt & sound therapy trends, the mysterious & miraculous in Sedona, and the real on lessons learned in pandemic-tide. A giggle fest, Yoda session, and straight up Godsend. Enjoy & do kindly share the listen.🧚🏽‍♀️ 🎙Listen (...

by Fey🇬🇾🇬🇧🇳🇬🇺🇸  @pinkpurseintl Fresh from the snap of another pandemipocalypse Autumn, this time the Big Apple food scene is #vaxxed, back, and biting, baby—and so is New York/Connecticut-based chef, author, journalist, TV host, healthy lifestyle influencer, and American Diabetes Association Ambassador (*whew!!!*), Chef Leticia Moreinos Schwartz! Life has only sped up for her in the matrix since our interview  here , which was hot on the heels of her role in the stirring,  Viola Davis-narrated,  Merck  documentary  A Touch of Sugar ,  and the release of her critically-acclaimed third cookbook, Latin Superfoods (affiliate link). Since then, the trilingual, Brazilian-born, French Culinary Institute-trained whiz—who honed her chemistry skills in prestigious kitchens like  Le Cirque  and  La Grenouille —has been mixing things up, with tv appearances such as  Netflix’s Best Leftovers Ever! , and projects like her wildly popular,...

by Fey  Twitter: @pinkpurseintl So many things happen in a blink—so quick that our minds seem not to process them, like the first tiny drops misting our Afro puffs or pig/ponytails, as we toddled after school with our mothers in the rain. Not so was 2020, which dragged its feet sullenly on, from the time we found out about coronavirus-19, until and through some argue, each gloomily present pandemic day. But there were folks, in what became an epidemic storm, who lifted our spirits in quarantine with their fun and funky content creation. And they are, as my late Mum would so warmly and jubilantly say (lilting  🇬🇾 Guyanese accent here), “to be commend-ed!” One such is LaShonda Cooks ( www.shondasart.com , IG:  @shondasart ), whom I interviewed for the WOPH pod, after she and an extensive network of fellow artists took the global social media #DontRushChallenge (🎥Watch:  https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-uLipsg00t/?utm_medium=copy_link  )  to the canvas-side o...