Hearts Converse

10/18/2017

On Sunday Oct. 15, the Hearts Converse Kickback returned. We brought the highly-anticipated conversation circle to the cool living room vibes at Ode to Babel in Brooklyn, New York.

“Can I Live” centered around self-care and maintaining sanity in a world that marginalizes many of us.

This event would not be possible without the contributors to our Indiegogo campaign.

Thanks again to our thought board sponsor Fun With Friends and playlist curator Music and Other Drugs.

Check out our event playlist here. bit.ly/hckickback6

Photos by Stacy-Ann Ellis!

06/09/2017

"I got books with my math homework, with my math teacher writing ‘hopeless’ in red ink because I was really bad at math. That does stuff to people’s confidence. It wasn’t until I got to Uni that I realized that — even Uni was a struggle. I didn’t do well. But a really good friend of mine, she noticed how my writing was chicken scratch. She noticed that I might be dyslexic and she pushed me to get a test done."⠀
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- on dyslexia. (No. 14, The Questions 100)⠀
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http://100.heartsconverse.com

05/09/2017

New story added! Watch Shadé speak on the impact of her poetry and how this shaped her understanding of influence.

http://www.100.heartsconverse.com/the-questions-100-no-13-shade-on-writing-poetry-to-cope-with-depression/

https://youtu.be/8ej-dqc2Ni4 NO. 13: HOW DID YOU NAVIGATE DEPRESSION AND COPE VIA POETRY? SHADÉ () ANSWERS. LOCATION: LONDON I looked up some symptoms for depression and I realized that I had some. And I was like, 'Wow.' I didn’t take too much noise of it at first, I kind of was like, ‘O...

05/09/2017

"Everybody has some type of influence. Even if you’re doing your small part, you can make it great. You can make it gradual, make it bigger and spread that. And that always keeps me humble and always makes me think, ‘Wow, I’m writing something. I’m going to perform that and people are going to be there. So I need to make sure I know what I’m putting out into that space because people are going to take that away.’ So if you have the power for people to take away something, make sure that you say something important." — . (NO. 13)

Watch full story here 👉🏾 100.heartsconverse.com

05/09/2017

"Also, I suffer from sleep paralysis as well. I think the part for me was when I started hearing voices in my head – literally hearing them. Not like, ‘Oh I’m thinking about [voices, but] actually hearing voices in my head. From that moment I was saying to myself, ‘Don’t pity yourself.’ That’s the first line in my poem. It’s, ‘Don’t pity yourself. Just see how you can navigate yourself through.’" — . (NO. 13)

Watch full story here 👉🏾 100.heartsconverse.com

05/08/2017

"The other day at someone came up to me and she was saying, ‘I’m going through depression now and that poem really helped me tonight.’ So you know you’re not just writing for the sake of writing. You know you’re writing for a reason." — . (NO. 13)

Watch full story here 👉🏾 100.heartsconverse.com

05/08/2017

“I looked up some symptoms for depression and I realized that I had some. I didn’t take too much noise of it at first. But I still acknowledged that I was feeling really weird with how I was acting towards people. Even simple stuff, like not wanting to get out of bed at all, being scared to go outside and being amongst people." — . (NO. 13)

Read full story here. 100.heartsconverse.com

05/08/2017

Watch Shadé speak on realizing the impact and influence of her poetry.

Watch full video at 100.heartsconverse.com

05/08/2017

✨NEW✨ Watch speak on realizing the impact of her poetry and how this shaped her understanding of influence.

Watch full video at 100.heartsconverse.com

03/09/2017

Tia is No. 12 in Converse's project, "The Questions 100," which is on a mission to interview 100 millennials of color. 100.heartsconverse.com

02/24/2017

And then we hit London. Our twelfth story comes from who spoke to us about creating , a dope space centering q***r and creative women of color in London, and also shared her musings on making friendships as an adult. Read her story here. .

http://www.100.heartsconverse.com/no-12-tia-on-co-founding-bbz-london-for-creative-q***r-women-of-color/