Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹

Writer | Musician | My EP, Quarrel, is out Now! Also, check out my podcast “When We See Each Other” for @BreakThruRadio.

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Quarrel is available everywhere! Stream it. Download it. Share it! Put it on a phat playlist. Tell your favorite DJ to play it. Talk about it. Okay? Okay! 👌👌👌
#singersongwriter #steelpan #indiemusic #QUARREL #brooklyn #nyc https://t.co/38j5KcDdjK

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

@AliahSheffield If you ever need a cheerleader to help squash that totally false feeling: I am here and I mean it!

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Quote of the day: “The change and growth you’re going through might feel painful or scary, but without it you will never get to where you want to be.” — Mel Robbins

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

“The day all the different parts of me can come along, we would have what I would call a revolution.” -Pat Parker

I was thinking of this quote today and how showing up as your full self is an act of love. Happy Friday 💋💗💋💗

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

@AliahSheffield Sadness

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Quote of the day: I don’t want to suffer from seriousness.

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

My big sis to me: Stop feeding your imposter syndrome. (I love my big sister 💗💋💗💋)

So me to you: Stop feeding your imposter syndrome.

And repeat!

Happy Friday 🙌🏽🫶🏽🙌🏽🫶🏽

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Overheard someone say: Change is the best apology… Couldn’t agree more 🫶🏽✌🏽🤟🏽👌🏽

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Is FB and Instagram down?

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Are there any leap day songs…?

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

A song is a poem, a poem is a song 💐

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Marinating on this: “It's not things that upset us but rather our opinions about them.” — Epictetus

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Still unlearning… Still disputing the irrational sea of thoughts and reframing language to amplify self instead of beating self down.

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

“A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking and the only thing that keeps you from who you really are and what you really want – is a belief which is only a thought that you keep thinking.” — Abraham Hicks

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Currently investigating the works of Sylvia Wynter, because my big sister said that I need to read her now! 🫡🫡🫡 #betterlatethannever #sylviawynter

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” #MLKDay #MLK95 #MLK

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

Happy Last Friday of 2023, y’all 💐🫶🏽🌺✌🏽

[america's local band cheekface @cheekfaceREAL]

there is an entire world of independent rock music that is not on the same 5 labels, covered by the same 4 publications, managed by the same 8 managers, worked by the same 6 publicists and yet – believe it or not – this music reaches and moves millions and millions of people

[Nikkiesha McLeod (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇹 @Cocoyea]

To everyone experiencing impostor syndrome: YOU ARE NOT AN IMPOSTOR.