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ouzin keïta and year 2001 enthusiast✨ | archivist, curator + virtual furral host @galayaabeh 🌹

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@unrefinedlem
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This photographer took pictures of children around the world surrounded by the food they eat every week and look at Dakar with the mburok spaghetti in the corner 😂 A meal for legends only!
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@unrefinedlem
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The Bronx fire is eerily similar to Grenfell. Once again poor, non-white people are subjected to an unimaginable level of abandon even after demanding for changes that could save their lives. That fire was caused by neglect and racism, not a heater. May the victims rest in peace.
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@unrefinedlem
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Maghrib is 4:40pm? Time to repay that week I missed during ramadan
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@unrefinedlem
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I swear Gambians are my favourite people on this planet 😂😂😂 Who is this? 😭
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@unrefinedlem
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Whenever I feel disappointed with Senegal’s performance I think back to them facing their former colonisers France in their opening match at the 2002 World Cup and serving them defeat on a silver platter and then my heart rate stabilises again
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7 years
This behind the scenes video of The Super Etoiles de Dakar (1998) is a mood for 2018 and beyond! 😸
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@unrefinedlem
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5 years
Imagine not being Senegambian??!
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you see why this is my favourite sport 😂😂😂
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Ouzin Keïta as exotic birds 🐦
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@unrefinedlem
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Bai Babu can sing Birima but can Youssou Ndour rap “bamboo comme Katchikally dox sa mind bi tactically mind bi jubb ni Bene Tally dorma dabb ndax damala sorri dama gaww ni bal bunj fetel, I’m Samsung nyi Alcatel”?!
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Roi du mbalakh🇸🇳. Roi du mbakhal 🇬🇲
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@unrefinedlem
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I'm gonna need Macky to ban IG live for now LMAOOOO 😂😂😂😂😂
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@unrefinedlem
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5 years
Photographs by Gregg Segal for his book 'The Daily Bread' Here's an article:
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@unrefinedlem
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Okay Senegal came second but they really came first because Algerians are not African. Next.
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@unrefinedlem
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I'll do my favourite 4 summer outfits ☀️✨
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Since summer is over, I would like to see your favorite 4 pictures from summer 19.
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That fact that there isn’t a law to ban unpaid internships is really disgusting. How do you expect students who’ve *just* graduated, are in debt and have little to no savings to be able to work tirelessly for months while completely self-funding during that time? Are you sick?
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@unrefinedlem
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just came to let you guys know that this video is ruining my life right now sjsjsjekekskseejklfkf 😭😭😭😂
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@unrefinedlem
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6 years
The most elegant of all the divas! A minimalist queen ✨✨
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@unrefinedlem
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Tobaski greetings from my little love bug💕🇬🇲🇸🇳
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supporting everything women do based solely off gender without any analysis into intent/potential impact
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What’s something that feels like feminism, but *isn’t* actually feminism?
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✨💫VHS covers as outfits💫✨
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One of my favourite scenes in theatre history 😄 (Ibra Ialien, 1998)
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@unrefinedlem
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What Mamadou Gassama did was brave beyond words but imagine living in a country so xenophobic and nationalist that you get citizenship for risking your life rather than for the simple fact that you’re a human being.
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Some of my favourite studio photos by Oumar Ly, Podor, 1963-78 🇸🇳
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when Gambians stopped decorating the bride's car with pink cotton, plastic bows and white ribbons and doing pipipipppp from junction to junction si la sey yi start di capasite
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My French is so good now. Please don't speak English to me ever again, désolé mais je ne parle pas Peppa Pig.
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Sonko may not be the president of Senegal but he can be the president of this [redacted].
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Senegambian men are obsessed with women’s vaginas for the same reason that humans are obsessed with aliens: lack of contact.
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@unrefinedlem
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Inspired by my love for malian studio photography 🥜
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I'm absolutely obsessed with my coquettes today so I came to show you guys 🥰😄
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The fact that Marichou is constantly shamed for her lack of "ndaw" even though at the time of their wedding Pod already had a child who was old enough to chew steak? Bobu tamit benen packet la 😭
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Or he’s Gambian
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A man that says he loves you the first time he meets you is a psycho.
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You can choose to respect the fact that someone has died by not saying anything bad about them but you can also honour those living and hurt by their past actions by not painting their destructive reality as entirely positive and admirable posthumously.
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That’s Mrs Gueye to you, thank you very much 💅🏾
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A country that doesn’t even have stable electricity where will they conjure nuclear power from? Please.
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The Gambia made history this week by becoming the first African state party to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. #nuclearban #UNGA 🇬🇲 🙌
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How can someone say Gambians use soap until it looks like a SIM card 😩😭
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The fallacy of Senegalese society is that everyone thinks they are more human than queer people, forgetting that all our identities/struggles are knitted. If someone is exhumed and burnt because of their sexuality today, tomorrow it’ll be their gender or ethnicity or tariha.
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There is no debate 💆🏾‍♀️
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Qui est la meilleur ? 😂
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Well, at least Halifa Sallah won the Gamtwitter Constituency. We did our part 🤎 #GambiaDecides2021
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@overdramatique At least this time they swapped the flowers for bubbles
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Common sa vah? Qu’est ce que your phone numero?
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Gambian men will go their whole lives acting like they're allergic to housework then turn into cinderfella when they marry a toubab lmao 😂
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I feel like typing it out won’t do him justice so I’ll do a short thread on my favourite Pape Thiopet lyrical moments 💃🏾💃🏾🎶
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Thread on the musical stylings and creative genius of the greatest artist in Senegal, Ouzin Keita.
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From when BBC did an undercover operation to bribe like 100 referees and Papa Gassama was one of the very few that refused the money that’s when we should’ve known he’s strictly business 😮‍💨 Love that for him and for Di Gambiyerrrrr.
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On the topic of sewing I’d like to share with you guys some of the things I’ve made. They’re by no means perfect but I wear them with so much joy
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100% joining Touss Tassar, just gotta work on my knee strength first
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Ohmygawd guys my mum’s friend’s husband didn’t go to school so he can’t read or write English. He received a text on his phone and gave it to his wife to read it for him ndekeh it was from his mistress in Gambia 😭 Brb let me go and die! 😭😭😭
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If I had a vote, it would without a doubt go to Halifa. Not only because he’s a socialist, but ‘cause he has shown himself to be approachable, is open to having his ideas publicly scrutinised and he has been doing this for decades without a sense of entitlement to the presidency.
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@unrefinedlem
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naturally all gorros are not the same but men are, by large, spineless and hateful entities who leave their wives unprotected in damn near (or full on) abusive situations because they think marriage-related suffering should be a rite of passage for all women. THAT is the point.
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the only dermatologist I trust
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@unrefinedlem
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Senegalese people don’t speak Wolof, they speak Frolof - as in half wolof, half wesh wesh 😩 To fully understand a lot of what they say/write you need at least basic knowledge of French. Accent differences aside, the way Gambians speak is more undiluted as such
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Poverty is such a traumatic thing because why else would people want to turn a train into some idealised utopian space where everyone and everything is regulated and human attributes, like mistakes, don’t exist? It’s ridiculous but actually quite sad.
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Vote for the candidate whose policies center around ensuring that poor, marginalised people lead a dignified life; who is daring to undertake huge changes so that the lives of Gambians may change; who understands that this is a responsibility, not a privilege; vote for Halifa!
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@unrefinedlem
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6 years
I wrote about #Sunu13Aout , conformity on SN twirra and catfish accounts. Have a read 😁
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7 years
Listen, men don’t think with their genitals, they think with their brains & their brains tell them that we live in a society which excuses, encourages and disregards sexual abuse which is why they do what they do. Please believe that it’s a conscious and well-thought-out choice.
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If Senegalese people think that their attitude will stop me from rooting for OUR Lions then they're sorely mistooken 😂 You cannot block my enjoyment please #Russia2018
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See how as soon as Pod realised that his family knew about he and Betty his first instinct was to check on Eva even though Marichou was sitting right there and was probably just as, if not more, hurt than Eva? See where willingly making yourself a doormat for a man gets you?
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OMBIOOOONCE 🦂🦂🦂🇬🇲🇬🇲
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My mum's friend caught her husband at his mistress' house. He told her that he was going on trek and she found him being fed fried fish by his chepeh, with a bib on, living his best life. Now tell me why she sat down and ATE the food instead of handling her man??? 🤣🤣🤣😭😭
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6 minutes before maghrib and I just started my period. How can Iblis be this powerful from behind barz????
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Studio photography by Oumar Ly, circa. 40s and 50s, Senegal 🇸🇳
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Just because they fucked 1 time or 100 times doesn't mean that he couldn't have raped her. Say it with me: consent is not continuous!
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we went to pray at the somali masjid near us and oh lord why do somali girls snap so fricking hard as a collective? every face was beat and every hijab was laidt I-
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I added gradient to my fudan for a little razzle dazzle. A very titillating experience overall 💅🏾
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I took my mask off for 2 minutes at the vegetable market and someone’s father fell in love with me. He was showing me pictures of his house in Manjai and accidentally swiped left to reveal the bum of a woman I’m pretty sure is his wife 💀 Gambian men are so ghetto, my goodness!
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One of the phrases I hate the most in this world is “dom nen la wajuur xeer la.” If you would rather nenify (and therefore dehumanise) your child than apologise to them then you’re not fit to be a parent; the maths is quite simple.
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I love how Aliou Cissé kept Kouyaté and Sarr on the bench and released them to scatter the place later in the game when no one experrerit. A technique I suggested during our pillow talk obviously. Everyone say merci
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if my husband was broke and ugly and was on this wretched app telling strangers all details of our intimate life I would simply beat his arse
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6 years
Hello guys I wrote about guewels, oral tradition and archives. Have a read ☺️
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3 years
May Marie Mendy rest in peace. The violence she suffered is unimaginable and the only way we can hope to honour her memory and grant her justice is to ensure this never happens again. That Gambian women don't wake up each day plagued by the thought that they could be next.
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Let's be serious, none of you have the range to come for those who identify as lgbtqi on the basis of morality or religion cos each day that goes by, you guys halalise for yourselves things that the deen condemns. Who's physically assaulting you in the streets for backbiting?
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From Havana, with love 🥀
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Gambians think that a good thing isn’t good if everyone has it. May Allah release you from the spirit of believing that poor people should only have access to the things they need to live a fulfilled life through selective benevolence rather than feasible structural changes.
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chile apparently his krouss wasn't the only thing that was long
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rouzz dangekh 🔥🎉🎂 @NestaWane
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When covid reached Gambia my biggest concern was for poor people, those who work in the morning in order to be able to eat in the afternoon. I could've never imagined that our biggest issue would be people chasing hews and insisting on clubbing like their lives depend on it❗
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Okay Alioune Cissé is married but his wife is from Burundi which means sis doesn’t know how to reggal thiebou diaga or how to taal thiouraye keytou keur so them cheekbones can and will be mine!!!
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@unrefinedlem
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Hey guys! I’m super excited to finally share with you my new blog/archive. A lot of hard work went into this so please have a look and let me know what you think ✨🙋🏾‍♀️
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Monday morning is always a good time to re-indulge in childhood crushes, no? 🤗
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A wife like Betty is exactly who Pod deserves. She's trash, selfish and narcissistic just like Pod and will probably ruin his life like he ruined Eva and Marichou's lives. A perfect fit.
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this little boy I used to play with in Gambia growing up who would put sand in the pocket of his haftan then go hide in a corner to chew it just called me on whatsapp muneh man lamor chase if I SCREAM 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 WOW! 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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my fav is when the heteros exercise their "islamic duty" by verbally abusing gay men meanwhile their body's still drying from their third sangu sett this week alone. worrying about another man's arse when you should redirect that energy towards getting tested for syphilis. jommi
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Did you lot see Saina yesterday? Mais damn 😍
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She'll let the choppa sing when it comes to trees but draws the line at speaking up against the western-backed, enduring persecution of Palestinians away from their ancestral land as if that isn't a pertinent environmental and geopolitical concern. She said cacti over humans.
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To be crystal clear: I am not “against” Israel or Palestine. Needless to say I’m against any form of violence or oppression from anyone or any part. And again - it is devastating to follow the developments in Israel and Palestine.
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I’m convinced that as Gambians our enjoyment isn’t here, it’s in the afterlife.
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An adult taking advantage of their proximity to a child to rape and impregnate them and subsequently being defended and protected at all levels, from personal to official to presidential, shows how deeply entrenched rape culture and misogyny is within our society. This is vile.
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I'm thankful for a deen that doesn't respond to the denial of natural rights with passivity + for a God that creates no barrier between He and the dua of the oppressed. I pray the wrath of Allah falls upon those who took innocent lives at Lekki, may they never know peace #EndSARS
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I was a mum today for about 5 minutes. This little girl was with her dad and she wanted to pee so he asked me to take her to the ladies toilet and I felt so protective of her and her little beaded cornrows. She's so beautiful! I would die for her, my dorter 😭😭
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I've had family in the same position as B. Abused till she miscarried & would "forgive" + return when attempts were made to intervene. Let's not use B's declaration of forgiveness as a scapegoat for why we're supporting ST as this is not an abuse pattern that's new to most of us.
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Ouzin and exotic birds have so much in common: both are rare, stunning to look at and worthy of our protection. MashaAllah ❤️
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Macky forcefully detained an opponent, let heavily armed pigs into the streets resulting in 4 DEATHS, shut down SenTV + Walf and cut off internet access so that people can't share info + organise resistance - all within 48 hours. He is a dictator. A CRIMINAL! #FreeSenegal
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my kitchen lately: 1. saffron butter pappardelle with seared salmon and broccoli crumbs 2. chilli orange chicken 3. lamb nihari with turmeric rice 4. steak open sandwich with burnt miso shallots and mushroom mayonnaise 🌱
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Modest fashion “bloggers” swear they’re shaking the style scene with this sportswear business as if somali hijabis haven’t been wearing maxi skirts with Nikeys since like 2007 🙄
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