Buddaaaaaaay, Happy Birthday!!

The universe 🪐 threaded us together, tightlywoven like my favorite hand-me-down sweater. Our friendship holds me tighter though, with a softness that rivals the finest silks. Though ‘friendship’ feels incomplete, and the syllables of ‘sisterhood’ makes far more space for who and what we are to one another. One year has passed since we first linked up and I’m so very grateful that the magic of our ancestors and mentors stitched us together. With you, this patchwork quilt, my sistren, of kinship brought me much solace and laughter in one of the most challenging chapters of my life.

I love you, like my next breath and am inspired everyday by your infectious love of this world and its capacity for Black feminist futures✨. I’ve never been so happy to peel shrimp and share light-up mock tails🍹at Rainforest Cafe by your side. I will always pay the extra 2.99 of storage a month just to keep our daily mixtapes and book recommendations. Buddaaaay, I am so lucky I get to hold your hand in this lifetime and the next - in every universe where we get to be sistren. Thank you for sliding into my DMs, saying yes to the #AWWorldTour, and reminding me that “Homegirl is a Verb”.

To my favorite sneakerhead and Aquarian Alien Superstar, Britt-Ah-ny, happiest of birthdays to you! I am so glad that, like our last embrace, we are knitted so closely together that I can’t imagine ever being apart. May this next season of life bring you affordable housing, durable lash extensions, a way for us to be geographically closer, a way for us to drop a literary mixtape, student loan debt relief, more adventures and pictures together, endless Ethiopian food, and a chance to go pet giraffes (ethically)🦒💕