#deun ivory

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deun ivory, 2018.

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Deun Ivory

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summer walker for her album, still over it shot by deun ivory

[nannasatcha]

「感謝し、この瞬間に 夢中でいなさい。 それが、今あなたに与えられた 全てなのだから。」 －Deun Ivory （米のアーティスト） #精霊の語り部　#深緑の魔女 #魔法の言葉 #witchytip #translation

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Deun Ivory

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@deunivory on instagram

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[rjeldridge]

Deun (2017) Photo by RJ Eldridge

[rapeculturerealities]

Artist and photographer Deun Ivory has found her true God-given passion in life—creating and cultivating a safe space for Black women to heal from their trauma. Ivory is a sexual abuse survivor, and while on her own healing journey, she learned that embracing the truth about her past and how it changed her was the only way to move forward. In 2018, Ivory won a VSCO Voices grant that encouraged applicants to create a project that showcased photography reflective of being “home.” Her response was to share the powerful stories of Black female sexual abuse survivors who shared their stories with her for a photo series she named “the body: a home for love.” The response to her work was so overwhelming that Ivory knew she was called to do even more.  So she kept going.

Today, Ivory is the creator of a nonprofit, named the body: a home for love after the creative spark that inspired it, that provides healing spaces for Black women who are working through their individual and collective sexual trauma through artistic expression and visual storytelling. Her goal is to raise 2 million dollars to serve Black women now and ultimately to raise 100 million toward helping other survivors in a meaningful and life-changing way. Her goal is ambitious, and it should be, because it is in direct response to the dire and alarming statistics surrounding Black women and sexual assault. Did you know that 1 in 4 black girls will be sexually abused before the age of 18? And, for every Black woman who reports rape, at least 15 Black women do not? And it gets worse- a whopping 22% of Black women and girls are survivors of rape — a higher share than among women overall. Black women also experience significantly higher rates of psychological abuse.

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Deun Ivory

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Tori Amos for The New Yorker

Photography: Deun Ivory

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Deun Ivory, Houston, TX.

Deun Ivory is a great artist from Texas who shoots only women and empowers women. Deun's work creates visual experiences of femininity, and more specifically women of color, to feel their own beauty and brilliance through the art she creates. Her work reminds us to prioritize the things in life that bring us peace and joy. I like how she wants to remind women that we are so pure and special. 

[dearwomanhood]

black woman, ⁣⁣

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never apologize for standing in your truth. ⁣⁣

never apologize for prioritizing your healing — even when it makes other people uncomfortable, because there are times when it will. ⁣⁣

never apologize for feeling all the feels that humanizes you. ⁣⁣

never apologize for speaking up. ⁣⁣

or holding space for yourself. ⁣⁣

or giving yourself time. ⁣⁣

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do not apologize for making space to heal. ⁣⁣

do not apologize for not normalizing problematic things. ⁣⁣

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so many of us are rooting for you. ⁣⁣

and looking to you as a source of hope. ⁣

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words by: Deun Ivory

[beautyintheblackness]

Instagram: Via - deun (dee • yawn) || Ivory (@deunivory)

[meganambers]

MondayMotivation: 7 Wellness Podcasts To Keep Your Head In The Game

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