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Amara Amaryah | travel + books + poetry, always poetry. a platform for story-telling, visuals, positive self-talk and empowerment | english tourism week, bigging up birmingham. hello loves this week is a good week to big up birmingham. it’s english tourism week and i’m witing about my favourite parts of my city. only recently have i started calling birmingham ‘mine’. and only recenty have i started to appreciate and prioritise local travel. an instagram friend told me she was

hi, i’ve come to share all of the glitter from the Birmingham black british bloggers BBB Mixer. Dust your mobile/ laptop screens because it is plentiful. You’re welcome. But honestly. It was so necessary.  I said that in the write up post, but I’m going to properly demonstrate the range and variety of bloggers and content creators that we’re hiding up here in the midlands.  And none of us had to pay big money and trek to London for this opportunity to connect with other equal

self love, self love, self love. i’m back documenting the work of more black women doing bits. two weeks ago i attended the Naturally Crowned event curated by Bonnie Lush Hair and My Ebony Box. it was glorious. i enjoyed the company of black women in birmingham interested in developing healthy self love habits and i made some friends. it was also an opportunity for me to read poetry fresh from the manuscript and i can’t wait to read from these pages more more more. the day wa

hello loves before i begin this post about my poetry readings, i want to discuss what i learnt yesterday at the ‘is the black womxn god?’ event. Dr. Runoko Rashidi taught me: ‘black was widely recognised as the colour of deification. it was not a colour of mourning as the western world has asked it to be. it was the colour of God. imagine a time when black was the colour of God.’ tell them. the entire event was filled with reminders to all gathered in the room that we have re

Black Girls Brunch Better. Black Woman Magic. Helping Black Women live their best lives. Black Women taking up space. Black women supporting black women in full force. My first brunch of 2018 with Black Ballad’s ‘Black Girls Brunch’ left me full of mantras and affirmations such as these. Black Ballad’s first event in Birmingham brought together the new faces in the city, sitting black women from several walks of life amongst one another. I find that this is the essence of Bla

take no shame in exploring the unexplored, sometimes. there is much beauty to be found in what you can find in the hidden things. -Amara Amaryah Interrupting// birmingham. Mind wanderer// birmingham. Reverie// birmingham. Post brexit feels// birmingham. Love when the sun does this// birmingham. Piece of peace// birmingham. #city #uk #birmingham #traveluk #vsco #rt #photography #streetphotography #travel #poetry #poems #europe