Oluwayemisi....

Most likely chasing a new dream.....#RizqMadam
حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

So, surely, with hardship comes ease.
Surely, with ˹that˺ hardship comes ˹more˺ ease. 🤲🏿

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

Not Iseyin trending on my feed for 2 days. What a day to be a proud 'omo ebedi moko'.

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

Me to my siblings 😀...

[Chyna ၄၃ @Phat_chyna]

I hate meeting “almost nepo baby” people

You can see all the tendencies of someone who was supposed to be a nepo baby, but something happened along the way 😭

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

Your take is what is unfair. Different schemes, different objectives, different budgets.

The oppressed always end up as oppressors themselves.

[Jamal @JajaPhD]

These Afghans and Palestinians would have ILR and recourse to public funds from day 1 but skilled workers who moved here as students are being told that they may need to wait 5+ more years for ILR.

It’s so unfair.

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

This slide 2.

[Alma Asinobi @almaasinobi]

I hosted a housewarming yesterday and had my friends over for an evening of food, fun, and laughter over unhinged hot takes and PowerPoint presentations 😅

It was supposed to be 4-8pm, but we ended the night at midnight! My heart is so full. Most fun I’ve had in a whileeee ❤️❤️

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

@MissQueue I see how the last sentence was necessary oooo 😀...First to type shots no dey pain.

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

And now, it's time to pray.....Today's imsomnia is not my fault. I did 'almost' everything correctly

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

Second things second
Don't you tell me what you think that I could be
I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea, oh ooh
The master of my sea, oh ooh

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

It was the F aroundest of times, it was the find outest of times....Do you know if you are carrying a bag of drugs or a bag of pennies????

[BIG OG @iamogkidd]

I still don’t understand how airports trust people to not take any bag that they want

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

Looking at the humiliation ritual that seems to be happening in this video, can I be glad that 'our' first lady is absent?

[Ruffrasta official @Ruffrasta1]

Our First Lady is busy collecting chieftaincy titles and sponsoring akara and kulikuli empire.

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

@MissQueue Hahahah....I would get off my chair for this walahi

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

@iskminov I'd say, just walk (with curiosity) without an itinerary.

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

@Omojuwa ..and have you really come from nothing? Japa is expensive. Even if you got in through a scholarship, it means you had an education that was worth something. Keep your 'started from the bottom now we are here' version for your friends/family. It is not helping us as a community.

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

@tosinolaseinde @Omojuwa And nobody respects you as much when you lead with this shitty 'I came from nothing'. This is why they keep chanting these 'go back to the shithole you came from' 'you're not grateful for what this country has given you' things to humble you... things they wouldn't tell 'expats'.

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

...because if anything, las las, I must be able to find my way back to Iseyin oro.

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

Fire alarm went off at 4am. When it was safe to go back in, bunch of us got into the lift, somehow everyone was jokingly declaring what they took out. Someone took their cat, another said she took her boyfriend, someone said phone. I just showed them my passport, and everyone lol

[Aakanksha Sadekar Chauhan @scotthakuraaiin]

My first, and probably last, Lululemon purchase was not for Pilates. I bought it at Heathrow because I had miscarried at 30,000 feet and bled through every piece of clothing I was wearing.

Nearly £200. That was the price of looking like an ordinary traveller again while my entire world was quietly ending beneath airport lights.

I remember cleaning the blood from my body in a Heathrow bathroom, pulling on those new clothes and walking back into the terminal because I still had another flight to catch.

People around me bought coffee, watched the departures board and complained about delays.

Nobody knew that, minutes earlier, I had been staring at my blood-soaked clothes and trying to understand how I could board the next flight when the future I had imagined was no longer travelling with me.

A few weeks later, I am back at my desk. And beside me is this photograph.

I cannot put it away.

I was told it was an empty sac. I understand what that means medically. There was no baby developing inside it.

But it did not feel empty when we saw two lines.

It did not feel empty when we calculated a due date, imagined telling our families and quietly began rearranging our lives to make room for someone we already loved.

Medicine may call it an empty sac.

But it was full of our hopes.

Full of plans, prayers and the small, private happiness that begins long before anyone else knows you are pregnant.

Perhaps that is what people misunderstand about miscarriage. You do not only lose what was there.

You lose everything you believed was coming.

Today, the UK Government confirmed that from April 2027, women and their partners who experience pregnancy loss before 24 weeks will have a legal right to take up to two weeks of bereavement leave.

That word matters: bereavement.

Because too many women return to work while they are still bleeding. Too many partners grieve silently. Too many people call it “sick leave” because the law has never given their loss its rightful name.

I was fortunate. My managers showed me extraordinary kindness when no law required them to. But compassion should never depend upon whether you happen to work for good people.

The leave will be unpaid, and that cannot be where the conversation ends. Nobody should have to decide whether they can afford to grieve.

Still, today the law moved a little closer to recognising the woman who changed into £200 worth of clothes in a Heathrow bathroom, wiped her tears and boarded another flight.

And the woman who now sits at her desk beside a framed photograph she still cannot put away.

They called it an empty sac.

But there was nothing empty about the space it left behind. 🤍

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

@JackNayland @AntoineSpeaker Says 'who'...exactly?

[Oluwayemisi.... @Nova_Gracey]

Watching a doc on SBS about the Slave trade in Jamaica. Slaves communicated thru hairstyles, like d direction of the hair cld be something that pointed towards an escape route, etc..When some slave owners clocked it, they made them cut their hair. Black hair is never just hair.