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theblackfemininesociety · 5 months

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The Realities of Leading a Soft Girl Lifestyle.

(no luxury materials, riches, or social status needed)

The concept of leading a "soft life" has gained immense popularity on social media. From the emergence of the "soft life" to the adoption of "soft girl era," individuals are striving to embrace and protray this lifestyle.

The merging of the "Soft Life" and "Black Women in Luxury" trends promotes an indulgent and opulent way of living. However, the problem arises when the boundaries between these two trends become blurred, as the Soft Life has become inundated with extravagant and unattainable daily routines and lifestyles, especially during times of economic decline and the widespread influence of social media.

A Life of Ease 🌹

The term "soft life" originated from Nigerian influencers, and it means rejecting the idea of constantly working hard and instead choosing to live without struggle and stress. This concept has gained popularity among individuals who believe in prioritizing self-care, relaxation, and enjoying the pleasures of life. Embracing the soft life means acknowledging that life is not solely about hustling and grinding, but also about finding balance and taking time to recharge.

In a society that often glorifies busyness and equates success with non-stop productivity, the soft life offers a refreshing perspective. It encourages individuals to slow down and appreciate the little joys in life, such as spending quality time with loved ones, indulging in hobbies, or simply taking a leisurely walk in nature. It emphasizes the importance of self-care practices, such as getting enough sleep, engaging in regular exercise, and nourishing oneself with healthy, delicious meals.

Living the soft life does not mean completely shirking responsibilities or neglecting one's ambitions. It is about finding a healthy equilibrium between work and leisure, and recognizing that constant stress and burnout are not sustainable in the long run. By prioritizing self-care and setting boundaries, individuals can maintain their well-being and find fulfillment in both their personal and professional lives.

The Marketing Scheme 📈

Due to the widespread fascination with living a comfortable and luxurious lifestyle, as well as the growing trend of promoting businesses highlighting affluent Black women, companies have cleverly targeted their audience and capitalized on this interest.

Their approach has transformed the concept of a relaxed and efficient lifestyle into a profitable strategy, enticing consumers to indulge in products endorsed by their beloved social media influencers or ones that are beyond the reach of the average individual's income.

📌 What We Want You To Focus On:

Strive for a balanced and stress-free lifestyle that fits your budget! We want to make it clear that you don't have to give up on things like a $300 facial or $100 yoga pants. We encourage everyone to pursue the life they want. What we're saying is, don't feel pressured or inferior if you choose to do an at-home manicure, light your favorite Target candles, and enjoy a glass of wine in your bathtub at home. The true essence of a fulfilling life is finding a balance between increasing your savings and reducing stress throughout the day. It doesn't require a specific price tag on the items used to do so.

Yes, Two Things Can Be True At Once.

Indeed, the well-known concept of "black women in luxury" is a way of leading a comfortable life, but the context of this aesthetic is solely dependent on financial means.

However, Living a stress-free life is primarily determined by an individual's behaviors and mindset rather than their financial status.

Life Tip: Having the right mindset leads to a luxurious lifestyle, but a luxurious lifestyle without a well-balanced mindset can lead to destruction.

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#the soft life #Nigerian culture #black women in luxury #classy black women #black women in femininity #feminine energy #black luxury #soft girl era #soft life #black women in leisure #peace of mind #healed black girl #healthy black women #black girl magic #resources

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howhow326 · 2 months

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New favorite thing: Ijaw owuamapu (water spirit) masks

[Photo ID: 4 pictures of masks from the Ijaw tribe of Nligeria. The top left mask is a stylized fish with a human face on it's back. The top right mask is diamond shaped with a upside down human face on the upperportion of the mask and a rightside up human face on the lower portion. The lower left mask is a human face with horns and a snake coiled around the horns. The lower right mask is a stylized large fish (maybe a shark) with a human face on it's back. End photo ID]

#africa #african folklore #nigeria #nigerian artwork #nigerian culture #ijaw #ijo #izon #african masks #nigerian masks #catergory: aquatic chimera cubism #water spirit #merfolk #mermen #i think #black history month #blackblr

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dyingenigma · 2 years

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subaruwwworld

#subaru world #cruel santino #santi #Subaru Boys #nigerians #nigerian culture #nigerian attire #nigeria #black girls icons #lagos #my upload

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keyki421 · 8 months

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There is something about the show Bob Hearts Abishola that I hate. The rudeness and ignorant views of Abishola and her family, completely rubbed me the wrong way. I found it crazy that some Nigerians were actually praising the show and talking about how authentic it is. If that is true, that is really sad. Cause the show portrays Nigerian culture as being cruel, harsh and heartbreaking at times. This show does not represent y'all in a positive light.

It also has a bit of a white savior complex as well. Cause Bob is portrayed as a loving and caring person who listens to others. While Abishola is egregious, rude and harsh. Caring nothing about other people's feelings, even her own son. The interaction between the son is what really kills me. If I grew up in a household like this, upon my 18th birthday I would become a ghost. I would leave my family and never look back.

I'm was shocked when I looked this show up and saw that there were 4 seasons and the show was being renewed for a 5th. It's crazy to me that this show got renewed but an extremely popular show like SWAT got cancelled by CBS.

#bob hearts abishola #tv shows #Nigerian culture #cbs

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theycallmebriiii · 2 years

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Chapter 6: What Is the Relationship of Ethnicity to the Nation?

My mother's family has been in America for nearly 40 years, and it all began with my grandparents being the first of their family members to migrate overseas. When my grandparents immigrated to the United States from Nigeria in 1982, they were forced to leave their children behind until 1997. (my mother was 16 at the time). My father's side of the family relocated from Nigeria to London. Because my father wanted to see more of the world, he left England and got citizenship in the United States in 1999 to attend college (was 19 at the time). In terms of "embracing American nationalism," I don't believe my family embraces it, but I do feel they have acclimated to it. I say this because, to me, adopting American Nationalism implies abandoning your ethnic culture in favor of a new one. My family is extremely passionate about Nigerian culture, particularly the meals, language, and values even after moving to a new country. After conducting my research about my family’s history and it’s relationship to nationalism and ethnicity I’ve learned that when you’ve moved from one environment to a new one it’s important to adjust to your new domain but you should never throw away your cultural values and customs for a new one.

#nigerian culture #african diaspora

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theaskew · 3 days

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Jenevieve Aken (Nigerian b. 1989, lives and work in Manila, Philippines), The Masked Woman Project, 2014.

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sabbyywabbyy · 8 months

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✨️Fashun show fashun show at lunch ✨️

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Drew them based on the 2nd image, 2 women with geles, iros and bubas; traditional Nigerian outfit

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#gele #naija #nigerian culture #outfits #nigeria #fashion #digital art #Instagram

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ghost-37 · 4 months

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unapologetically-ifulious · 2 years

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The Curse Of Adulting

Becoming an adult has always been the main goal, but is it truly what we want, or what we are programed to believe.

I graduate from the university in a few months, we were thought everything apart from being adults, in shot we we were kept in a box to conform to certain pattern of thinking. It always felt like we were in the Neil Burger movie "Divergent", A community is spilt into different factions to conform to certain pattern of life, a wall divides them from the other part of the world. My schooling experience is similar, especially towards the ending of the movie where the soldiers are inoculated with a chemical that removes their choices as humans completely. In my case, there chemical was "fanaticism" in disguise of spirituality. It was forced upon us the same way it was forced upon the soldiers in Divergent. Only the divergent can survive this chemical inoculation.

Finally, we are outside the wall, facing the real world but we have no idea of facing it. We are lost in a sea of thoughts on who we are and what we are supposed to be. How do we navigate it, if we have no idea of our identities. The world we all find ourselves in is so political right now, there are more factions the society itself has created to put us in. How do we know who we truly are, how do we know what we truly are ? Is this a phase in our lives that will pass or will this lingering thoughts keep tormenting us. We now find ourselves in the place where only the divergents can survive. How divergent are you ?

The curse of adulting is the dilemma we all find ourselves in, after going over the wall and walking into this muddy patch of land, in totally solitude with no one to guide us and tell which way is right or wrong. What will a Divergent do ?

#woke culture #stay woke #covenant university #divergent #fanaticism #nigerian blogger #nigerian culture #private university

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lazywriter-nita · 2 years

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This is my read for tonight. So many chapters in and I am saddened and enthralled. It makes me wonder about my culture.

Later on, I'll post snippets of my thoughts as I went through the book.

#readblr #readnow #nigerian #nigeria #yoruba #culture #beautiful words #life lessons #sorrow #mother #love #betrayal #Nigerian culture #book readers #books #booksbooksbooks #bookblr #daily reading

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kemetic-dreams · 2 months

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#Cuba #Nigerian #african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #brownskin #brown skin #afrakans #african culture #afrakan spirituality #african landscape #African language #Cuban language #spainish #lucumi #Yoruba #epic video

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saitamastamaticsoup · 6 months

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Not to be dramatic but since hiori is blasian in canon I need black x readers asap🗣️ like we are DEF not getting any cultural background on this kid (because they just slid it in there like we weren’t gonna recognize in the first place)not that we have any background on any of these children’s parents but I think he should explain how he feels being mixed in Japan because it’s just really funny having these two in the exact same anime, and they are both black

This is ABSOLUTELY hilarious 😭

Edit: so I’ve noticed a pattern of EVERY character looking like their mother and barely sharing any resemblance to their fathers so ig he gets a pass for being pale BUT there’s even more melaninated characters so let’s give him some sun too!!🥺

Respectfully; come the fuck on

#blue lock #hiori yo #blue lock hiori #bllk hiori #hiori x reader #blue lock x reader #like I’m most likely gonna do some thing myself #but like the fact that I found out from Twitter #I am once again asking if it is a nod to like being white passing #like is he not supposed to look black because of that #he don’t look like his parents where did his dad come from? Did he immigrate to Japan? Is he Afro American ? Is he Nigerian?#like they’re doing so good on representation so far please.#IT HAS TO BE ON PURPOSE #BC LEO OR WHAYEVER HIS NAME IS IS THERE AND SHIDOU AND TYE OTHER BLACK GUY #I’m literally choosing to believe that it’s on purpose #I am reaching for Atoms I’m not grasping at straws!!#he says he feels like he doesn’t belong so does he mean displaced from two cultures or just one?#what about his extended family is he allowed to talk to them since they’re so suffocating?#I feel like this is a very real thing black kids relate to you can’t just give me him and not tell me shit about him.#if I catch up in the manga and I don’t get any more details I’m going to start chewing lava #Filling in the blanks on his backstory on God #does he just know English and Japanese?#He has a very specific dialect of speaking so is it from knowing a different type of language??#aave mixed in???#French is a very prevalent language in Africa. Does he know a little French?#CREOLE??#like please sad backstory aside who the fuck is he!!#does he get to interact with any of the other black characters??#HIM SHIDOU AND LOKI CAN HE BESTIES LIKE COME ON!!#im in so much pain I’m reading ahead of where I am

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indeedgoodman · 4 months

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3rdeyeblaque · 1 year

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This month in Hoodoo History: The Igbo Freedom Landing March

In May of 1803, 75 Igbo men & women chose freedom in death over a life of hell, spurring one of the largest mass suicides in the history of Maafa.

• In May 1803, a British slave ship called, The Wanderer, captured over a hundred Igbo men/women & other West Afrikan Peoples from present-day Nigeria and taken to Savannah, GA.

In Savannah, they were resold into Slavery to be worked to death on plantations along the Georgia coast. The price for each of their lives? $100. They were forcibly transported onto a ship called, the York that set sail for St. Simon's Island.

• During this voyage from Savannah to St. Simon's Island, 75 Igbo men & women rose up against their captors. They drowned the slavers, took control of the ship - grounding it in the Dunbar Creek.

At some point, the Igbo fled the ship. Led by their High Chief, a subset of the Igbo sang as they marched into a salt marsh of Dunbar Creek. One by one, they returned home in the face of a fate worse than death.

• This event that became known as, the Igbo Freedom Landing March, spawned enormous symbolism & folklore in the Afrikan Peoples and their descendants on this land. Many believe that the Freedom Landing and the nearby salt marshes in Dunbar Creek are haunted by the Spirits of the Igbo Peoples who drowned there. It is heralded as the first recorded Freedom March in U.S. history and has long since been a staple in Gullah-Geechee folklore, as the story of the Igbo Peoples who chose death over Slavery.

• Today, Igbo Landing is a nationally recognized historical site. It is located at Dunbar Creek on St. Simon's Island in Glynn County, GA.

• In September 2002, the Afrikan descendant community of St. Simon's Island, GA held a two-day commemoration of this event, including a procession to the salt marshes along Dunbar Creek where the mass suicide took place. They were represented by 75 Afrikan descendants across the country, Haiti, Brazil, & Nigeria. The attendees consecrated the site and did the collective work to elevate the restless Igbo spirits into healing and peaceful transition.

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achromecoveredclone · 2 months

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can African Americans please stop saying "black culture" in reference to the homogenised African black cultures in the United States please

#its extremely reductive even in America #there are so many black people internationally in different nations with different cultures #im Nigerian i have no idea what cultures are in Uganda #im Yoruba i have no idea what cultures go on in Igbo #im black British so i understand other like Ghanian and Jamaican cultures #im black British and i have so much knowledge about African American culture because it is exported to me and then posed as “my culture” as #a black person. That cant be right #black brit #black people #black culture #aave #i have so many takes on aave ans how other people should be able to use it as a black brit who knows white boys eho say wagwan. it's not as #big of an issue as most people think tbh #African #african american #black history #black cultures #please dont homogenise blackness.

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notjustpictures · 9 days

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This was #me on the way to see my grandpa for the last time. en-route to Dambatta. He barely recognized me, but he eventually did. I don’t blame him though, I wouldn’t recognize all my grandchildren as a centenarian with a long lineage. May his soul rest in jannatul firdaus, Ameen.

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