Awkwardly Introverted

Sometimes, the real world feels so overwhelming that the only way to cope is to dive headfirst into a book. Not just any book, though—dystopian fiction, where nightmare scenarios play out in vivid detail, oddly comforting in their exaggeration... or are they? 🤎🤔 Lately, two books have hit a little too close to home: 1984 by George Orwell and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Let’s start with 1984, the classic story where “Big Brother is watching” has become more than just a cautionary tale. 👁️ Surveillance, censorship, and rewriting history? ✔️✔️✔️ The line between fiction and reality gets blurrier every day. Orwell warned us about this chilling world, and yet here we are, scrolling through news feeds 📱, questioning what's real, and feeling like our privacy is a thing of the past. 🧑🏾‍💻 Then there’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Once a disturbing fictional world, it now reads like a potential future. 🚫👩🏻‍🦰👩🏼‍🦰👩🏽‍🦰👩🏿‍🦰👩🏾‍🦰 Women’s rights are under attack, people a...

To all the women out there—this is for you. 💖 For the dreamers, the doers, the fighters, the trailblazers. For the women breaking barriers, shattering glass ceilings, and refusing to be silenced. For the mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, and mentors. For the women lifting each other up instead of tearing each other down. This is YOUR moment. This is OUR movement.  ✨ Women have been the  backbone of history, the heartbeat of change, and the soul of resilience.  We have risen in the face of oppression. We have spoken up when the world tried to silence us. We have built, created, led, and nurtured. And  we are not stopping now. 🚀  We are the revolution. 💡  We are the future. 🔥  We are unstoppable. This image captures something so powerful—women standing together, arms linked, holding each other up. Because when women  unite, the world shifts.  When we  amplify  each other’s voices, change happens. When we  collaborate inst...

  Today, I proudly cast my vote 🗳️ for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, ready to contribute to the change I believe this country needs. But as I made my way to the polling station, I couldn’t help but think about the importance of this right and how it's unfairly stripped away from so many Americans due to felony disenfranchisement. Voting isn’t just a privilege—it’s a fundamental right. And yet, millions of people are shut out of the democratic process because of past mistakes. There’s a lot of misinformation around this topic, especially in my own family. I’ve heard relatives say they can’t vote because of a felony conviction, when in reality, in many states, that’s simply not true. Let’s break it down. What is Felony Disenfranchisement? Felony disenfranchisement refers to the laws that prevent individuals with felony convictions from voting. These laws vary widely from state to state, creating a confusing patchwork of policies that can be hard to navigate. In some states, your votin...