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Plus237|Danielle
@plus237.bsky.social
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Multi Media Artist & Public Scholar
Based on Piscataway land|baltimore
[Whose imagination are you living in?]
🏳️‍🌈cis pan poly Bantu girlie from🇨🇲🌍

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October 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Tryna figure out more ways to style my kuffiyeh ☺️
October 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Black woman w locs smiling at a mirror. Mirror and photos by @ amakakorie on insta Black woman w locs smiling at a mirror. Mirror and photos by @ amakakorie on insta
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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If you’re in Chicago, come thru the Tribehouse Gallery Sept 20th from 6-10! Three of my paintings will be there ☺️
Flyer for the network exhibit, featuring Danielle Kepeden and many other artists on Sept 20, 6-10 at the Tribehouse gallery in Chicago. Untitled 2, Danielle’s painting, is featured on the flyer Flyer for the network exhibit with the words “The culminating event of The Connect International Residency's fifth cohort features original artwork from artists across the city, country and world. Commune with us as we make connections set to the soundtrack of live performances from some of Chicago's best and brightest.” At the Tribehouse galley Sept 20th 6-10 Danielle smiling in front of her 3 paintings featured at the Network Exhibit
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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A spring flower in the summer sun
September 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how we contribute to our own suffering by not giving ourselves the time to grieve old selves and not often updating our self concept🤔 words from Grieving Mindfully by Sameet M. Kumar
We grieve whenever an anchor in our understanding of our identity is lost. Picture your identity as a necklace of precious stones that comes undone and needs to be restrung. If some stones are lost, new ones must be added to replace the old ones. Grief can be understood as the process of picking up the pieces of your identity (the stones) without the help of someone you had assumed would always be there, or without a relationship that was a crucial part of your life (the string). Grief is the process of finding out who you are in a world that is barely recognizable because of the tremendous change that has taken place. You may not be able to answer the question, "Who am I?" for a long time after your loss. UNDERSTANDING GRIEF A common concern voiced by grieving people is what they can expect of the grieving process. This is almost an impossible question to answer, since everyone's journey through grief is different. Each grief is
August 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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August 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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the shadows, the paint strokes, the thick ink 💖☺️
A black print w the words whose imagination are you living in on a magenta dashiki cloth @plus_237
August 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Post from tumblr account tomfordvelvetorchid-deactivated: Not caring about how your actions affect others and putting yourself first are different things!!!!!!
July 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Missing them
Black woman smiling w dark purple braids Black woman smiling hand to her face w navy braids wearing a rainbow bracelet Black woman at the beach in a blue and pink ombré dress w black and green Fulani braids
July 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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From Michael Schneider
Photo of person in woods w a neon sign that says healing also means taking responsibility for the role you play in your own suffering
July 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Metal health hack I’ve been doing for the last 3yrs: set up reminders on your phone w sweet things you want to hear. Repeat it every few hrs, days or weekly and when it comes up on your phone, really pause what you’re doing, take in the compliment and take deep grounding breaths
Reminder pop up on iPhone: You're incredible and you're powerful and I'm in awe of you. Keep investing in yourself💕 Today, 13:00
July 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Black woman w brown hair and a black top w glasses taking a selfie
June 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Cancer season came and the unprocessed grief popped up
Book title: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with LoSs grieving mindfully SAMEET M. KUMAR, PH.D. Foreword by JEFFREY BRANTLEY, MD, author of Calming Your Anxious Mind *top pet cut off* Grieving mindfully can be understood as being consciously aware of the intense pain of love after loss. This may sound a bit strange at first, since the pain can seem to be swallowing you up, and you may feel that you are all too aware of it, often to the point of not being aware of anything else. Such emotions can make it difficult to find meaning in your existence and can rob you of a sense of purpose and direction. You are probably already feeling some of the intense emotional pain of grief and are wondering why you would possibly want to be aware of its intensity. Awareness is not the same as indulging in the intensity of grief, nor is allowing yourself to come into full contact with your thoughts and feelings after loss the same as wallowing in pain, or keeping yourself in pain. Awareness is allowing yourself to accept the pain of grief, thereby finding relief in not running away from your loss. Grieving mindfully is the process of using your emotional vulnerability not to suffer greater distress, or to intensify your pain, but to redirect this pain toward your growth as a human being. Engaging in this process begins when you come in full contact with yourself and learn to ride the waves of grief. Your thoughts, your feelings, your identity after loss all become vehicles for your own evolution. Grieving mindfully can be understood as making the decision to allow yourself to mourn, and to fully experience the lessons of grief with the goal of living life better. The terrible emotional pain of grief tends to have a life and process of its own. Allowing the process to unfold with mindful aware-ness—a sense of purpose and direction to the pain-may not remove all distress, but it can soften the sharp edge of pain. To allow the process means to allow yourself to feel and experience each day on its own terms; we cannot assume that we know what tomorrow will bring. As you are experiencing this process, you will feel that very natural pull to escape or numb yourself from the pain. However, by being aware of grief rather than ignoring or denying it, and by working to understand what drives this pain, you can release yourself into the person you are and the person you want to be. In other words, with mindful awareness of your grief, you can move closer to the people in your life who matter the most, and change habits or ideas that have been keeping you from living fully. Full awareness, especially in grief, of your patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior can take you from living with misery, fear, and discontent to living with openness and passion. Simply put, grieving mindfully enables us to use the tremendous influx of emotional energy that comes from experiencing loss to nurture life. Grieving mindfully means approaching your grief as an opportunity to grow by actively giving meaning to your pain. Channeling the momentum of grief into a journey of awakening is difficult if you are trying to rush the process or if you become completely numb to your feelings. Well-meaning friends may encourage us to "move on," or "get on with life." Yet when we are told to "get over it," a very…
June 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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General Order No. 3 states: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere." While the order was critical to expanding freedom to enslaved people, the racist language used in the last sentences foreshadowed that the fight for equal rights would continue. • archives.gov
June 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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As part of his proposal for the Baltimore City Budget, Mayor Brandon Scott failed to include funding for comprehensive immigrant services. The budget proposed by the mayor fails to fund wrap-around services for immigrant communities as well as legal support, Know Your Rights, and community defense. At the same time the community is suffering extreme attacks by the Trump administration.
June 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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🌻Reminder🌻
Untitled 2 painting in the background (a yellow and navy abstract painting featuring 3 hugging black women) with words “proceed even without clarity. have faith in self and ancestors” with the site plus-237 . com below
June 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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31 in 3 days 😌🌻
May 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Still floating from seeing Mereba😍😍😍 our Ethiopian princess killed it🥹
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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feeling so cute
Black woman smiling in glasses, black top and jeans w a camera worn across her chest
April 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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sometimes I miss braids
Black woman in navy blue braids w sunglasses and a black top Black woman posing w a rock in sign w purplish braids and a green top Black woman in fulani braided bun w cowry beads, white coat and red dress Black woman squatting in a brown animal print dress w greenish Fulani braids
April 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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2nd batch of fire cider ready ☺️
Fire cider w ginger, jalapeños, peppers, garlic, onion, bay leaf
April 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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‼️Take action to stop cops working as ICE agents in MD‼️
URGENT: TAKE ACTION BALTIMORE RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK Push the Maryland Values Act (HB1222) through the Senate Judiciary Committee! This bill would end 287(g) agreements that allow local police to act as ICE agents. We have just a few short days to get it voted out of committee. Police & law enforcement lobbyists have been trying to convince senators to kill the bill. Daily calls to these offices are critical, even if you've already called them before. URGENT: TAKE ACTION BALTIMORE RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK TAKE ACTION TO STOP MD COPS FROM WORKING AS ICE AGENTS! EVERYONE: Call Bill Ferguson, President of the MD State Senate. Let his staff know if you're in his district (46). 410-841-3600 "I am asking if I can count on you to pass H.B. 1222 without ANY watering down of the bill or weakening protections for immigrants. ." URGENT: TAKE ACTION BALTIMORE RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK TAKE ACTION TO STOP MD COPS FROM WORKING AS ICE AGENTS! EVERYONE: Even though they don't serve the Baltimore area, these state senators hold key roles on the committee holding back the bill. Chair of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, Will Smith: 410-841-3634 Vice Chair of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, Jeff Waldstreicher: 410-841-3137 "I am asking if I can count on you to pass H.B. 1222 without ANY watering down of the bill or weakening protections for immigrants."
April 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I don’t be showing my brilliant art enough 😅 my mistake lol
Business card w +237 logo w a purple telephone on traditional Bamiléké patterned fabric Yellow art print w the words whose imagination are you living in, a lil white sticker w the same words, and a black and blue card saying thank you for being you, made w Nigerian lace flowers Yellow painting of 3 women hugging w two branches framing it, w some navy and white I draw inspiration from my memories, my coming out story, global history, U.s. popular culture, my academic and personal research on racial capitalism, Black womanist thought and African queer studies. Some reflection questions for us to think about: How can we increase our capacity to hold multiple truths? Where did we learn the values we uphold today? How are we working to close the gap between our values and daily actions? What stories do we tell ourselves about ourselves, the land, our ancestors and the people around us? Which ancestors do we shun, which do we revere? How can we practice accountability in our day to day? Whose imagination are we living in? *+237 on my logo is the country code for Cameroon
March 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Selfie of a Black femme in a blue top
March 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM