Elevated Design
Navigating life’s intricate fabric, choices unfold paths to the extraordinary, demanding creativity, curiosity, and courage for a truly fulfilling journey. Create anything.
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(Re)Building Tapatsidwa Hub
(Do not mind our interim logo, we are undergoing a REBRAND!) There are moments when an idea stops feeling like an idea and starts feeling like a responsibility. Tapatsidwa Hub began like that for me. Not as a perfect plan or a polished brand but as a frustration that kept growing every time I met… Read more
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Inkspire: On building something that is both personal…and bigger than you.
(Due to (re)branding of Tapatsidwa Hub and Inkspire, submissions will remain open past the posted date.) What most people may not know is this: Inkspire did not begin as a “brand.” It began as a need. A need to write. A need to process. A need to make sense of thoughts that did not quite… Read more
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I recommend you become very difficult to shame
I highly and strongly recommend that you take this advice to heart. Be rude, loud and unmoved. Because shame has been one of the most effective tools used to keep women small, quiet, grateful, and apologetic for existing exactly as we are. Many of us were raised in homes where misogyny was implied. It lived… Read more
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Dedicated to the words we should have swallowed and let cut our throats.
And yet, we are human. We falter. We fail. We speak when we should listen. We lash out when we should lean in. This is not a condemnation without mercy. It is a confession. A collective one. Read more
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I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.
“I’ve been waiting,” she say. I can only laugh. I knew she would come, not the when but her arrival was written in stone. Time never confused us; it only delayed the meeting. We both share a knowing look. We have met before in all the people that went on, and on the days I… Read more
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To love, lose and still be kind
The last 10 months have been me having to constantly pull myself from under the rubble and I am grateful for that version of me. I have been meaning to write but those words were buried somewhere I could not reach. So much has happened since I have been away and this will be (hopefully)… Read more
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Myra Trudea Okumu 