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On The Scene: Yara Shahidi, Tess Holliday, Dascha Polanco and more attend 29rooms

by Kristen Martin September 7, 2018
by Kristen Martin September 7, 2018 0 comments
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Yara Shahidi, Tess Holliday, Dascha Polanco and more attend Refinery 29โ€™s 29rooms, which is back in NYC for a limited run from September 6-15.

This yearโ€™s theme is โ€˜Expand Your Reality,โ€™ and of course each of the installments represent Refineryโ€™s core values, imagination, inclusivity, individuality, and impact.

The mission of 29rooms is the following: Rooted in storytelling and self-expression, 29Rooms: Expand Your Reality encourages you to unearth your deepest creative instincts and enter into a new realm of abundant thinking. ย 

For the luminaries in attendance, that abundant thinking and submersion into culture and creativity was expressed as each of them were asked, What do you think about when you hear the phrase โ€˜Expand Your Reality,โ€™ and how has expanding changed reality for you?

Logan Browning: โ€œWow. Expanding my reality just means to kind of check myself and see if Iโ€™ve been limiting myself in any way. Whether thatโ€™s in my work or in my friendships and relationships. [Also] how I dream. I think I can dream much bigger. I think Iโ€™ve achieved some amazing things in my life and I really do believe that I can achieve so much more and just being here makes me feel like that.โ€

Coco Rocha:โ€œI think that whatever your reality is, itโ€™s pushing it a little further on personal boundaries. My reality is modeling. And how did I push my boundaries? Well, Iโ€™ve actually started a model camp. And Iโ€™ve been teaching the trade to girls of all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes at our little camp site. I think that that is my expansion and my reality.โ€

Yvonne Orji:โ€œThere was a song that I used to love in church. I think itโ€™s like a childrenโ€™s song [sings] if youโ€™re gonna dream, dream big. I could just go on and on. And I used to love that song because I was like, you are right. Whatโ€™s the point of dreaming dreams that you could totally fulfill in five seconds? Like, itโ€™s actually not a dream but just a wish that you could go do. But a dream that requires assistance from like 20 other people, or something that you canโ€™t even fathom how you would do yourself, or something that stretches you beyond the capacity of what you thought you could do. Like, thatโ€™s a dream! And if youโ€™re going to dream, dream so far that you say โ€˜Iโ€™m going to fill stadiums. I have no idea right now because I canโ€™t even fill my kitchen, but Iโ€™m going to fill stadiums.โ€™ And like, thatโ€™s a dream that you have to aspire to and work hard for. But itโ€™s so sweet. Itโ€™s so much sweeter when you accomplish it.

So like expanding your reality, dream outside of what you see. Dream outside your comfort zone. Dream outside your neighborhood. Push the layers back. What layers? When you think about [how] somebody created WiFi in the air. Like what? Youโ€™re on the plane and you could text somebody [who is] on the ground. Somebody dreamt that and itโ€™s like, how? Why did they want to text someone from the air? But now weโ€™re not even thinking that. Weโ€™re just thinking, Iโ€™m so glad I can text someone from the air. So itโ€™s like, expand whatโ€™s normal because one day, whatโ€™s not normal [will become] normal tomorrow. And then people canโ€™t live without it. So itโ€™s just fascinating to me ย to look around and say, โ€˜this is what someone dreamt and then did?โ€™ Like how is this rope hanging? [Looks around] So many questions, but I canโ€™t wait to go in and find out. And itโ€™s so cool.โ€

Ajiona Alexus: โ€œReality is whatever you want it to be. Itโ€™s your world and you create your own circumstances so never let anyone limit you off of what you think reality should be like because your reality is really your true dreams.โ€

Yara Shahidi:ย โ€œExpanding your reality means to educate yourself, not only about5 the very literal things we see in text but to really go past that and learn about our global community. Learn about whatโ€™s happening in the world. And this is a beautiful moment through arts, to do that. To be able to look at different cultures and communities over some time. Moments of the future, past and present, and realize thereโ€™s so much that we donโ€™t know until we embrace it.โ€


Dascha Polanco: โ€œI think that expanding your reality is a step outside of what society considers as standards. Itโ€™s to live what truly is your best life, make yourself happy, work on self-love, self-lovery all the time. I think itโ€™s important for us in order to move forward as humanity. We need to embrace, not only the positive and negative, but we need to be able to reach beyond what is considered normal!โ€

Tess Holliday: โ€œFor me, expanding my reality means changing peopleโ€™s narrow view of beauty and what that means to them. Especially for marginalized folks and marginalized bodies and we canโ€™t push things forward if we have such a narrow view of what that means. Do you have to expand your reality if beauty because thatโ€™s how things change. Itโ€™s representation and visibility.โ€

Zazie Beetz: โ€œI feel itโ€™s important as someone who is creative and tries to sort of always access the spirituality of life. Not in a God sense but in a universe and nature sense, a well-being sense. I think itโ€™s important to remain open and keep your mind curious and engage with the world around you. I think that causes an expansion of self and an expansion of being. And everyday I try to really just approach the world and receive what it gives me and remain open and vulnerable to it. So to me that is an expansion and an expansion of reality.โ€

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