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      <image:title>Neola Oleta Husbands — Guyanese-Canadian writer, Black woman founder Vancouver</image:title>
      <image:caption>Neola Oleta Husbands — Guyanese-Canadian writer and Black woman founder in Vancouver. Founder of Neola the care platform, principal at Neola Husbands Advisory, board director at DCI Canada (Defence for Children International). Children's rights advocate, former Crown ward of the Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto (CCAS).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Neola Husbands captured under a canopy of polka-dot umbrellas in Toronto. Guyanese-Canadian writer and Black women essayists Canada — UBC Creative Writing alumna.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Neola Husbands on life with heart disease — Black women heart health advocate diagnosed with coronary artery disease at 27, Lipoprotein(a) of 1,700+. Tracking the reversal publicly. Vancouver. #FollowYourHeart</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Black women travel — Anguilla, quietest luxury in the Caribbean</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Neola Husbands in the dunes outside Dubai at sunset — red keffiyeh wrapped, golden hour over the UAE desert. Black women travel during the pandemic, solo Dubai. The audacity of motion when the world shut its doors.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gold-leaf wrapped steak in Dubai — fine dining from Neola Husbands' travel notes. Black women travel food, Dubai luxury dining.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Neola Husbands at ornate Bangkok temple doors — Black women travel Thailand, cultural immersion, Southeast Asia solo.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bangkok birthday — Black women solo travel for their birthday</image:title>
      <image:caption>Neola Husbands' birthday cake in Bangkok — Black women solo birthday travel, Thailand. The walkabout never pauses.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Black women travel Spain — Lanzarote volcanic vineyards (looks like Mars)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Neola Husbands standing in the La Geria vineyards of Lanzarote — black volcanic soil, low stone zocos around every vine. Black women travel Spain, Canary Islands, surprise birthday trip. The Mars of the Earth.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Neola Husbands on grief, mothers and daughters, and Whitney Houston — written by a Black women heart health advocate living with coronary artery disease. Carla Joseph's daughter, mother-loss essay.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Neola Husbands at the DCI Canada (Defence for Children International) AGM — former Crown ward of the Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto (CCAS), Black children's rights advocate, foster care advocate Canada. Board director speaking on children's welfare policy and what advocacy actually requires when the system is the room you're speaking in.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Creative Corner of Neola Oleta Husbands — poetry, picture books, pilots and scripts by a Guyanese-Canadian writer. Black women writers Canada.</image:caption>
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