THE PINK PURSE INTERNATIONAL STORY (#PINKPURSEINTL)

              🎥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 & prolific #Caribbean visual artists amongst us, like se

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 of the sandbox. (#ICYMI,  🎧 L