Centering, Uplifting & Celebrating Brown Girls
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A conversation between Asia & Jenina... J: What if we just did posts of Brown girls? A: Just photos of all the Brown girls? J: All of them? A+J: YES! That is how Celebrating Brown Girls, was born! In keeping with our mission, we have decided to create a regular post that celebrates Brown girls. All …
Pulling foreign objects out of your hair: I'm getting my hair done today... When your kinks, coils, and curls are poppin: When it's time to detangle: Trying to slick your baby hair: After a blow out: The power of braids: When your hair cooperates After all your new hair is in: When you know you your …
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Minding my lil' business on Facebook and come across this. Almost all of these are veiled threats. I'm not one of your little friends. Do I look like BooBoo the Fool? A hard head makes a soft behind. First of all, check your tone. Stop all that crying before I give you something to cry …
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I wrote this yesterday in honor of the 49th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination. Jenina thought it was too good to not share with you all here. - A<3
Asia and I are planning a series of posts around missing Black and brown girls in the US. This is some heavy fucking work and pulling this data together yesterday destroyed me. Today, I am stronger. The numbers below are staggering and there is still no clear picture. I am currently working to get some …
I grew up poor. Like, really poor. "I shared clothes with my siblings, had one pair of shoes to last all school year, scrubbed my clothes by hand in the bath tub" poor. My mother was disabled and my father, often in between jobs. We were without a lot of things that my friends and …
When Asia and I sat down to discuss our publication and outline our vision ,we were as giddy as school girls at a sleep over! This entire launch has been an inspired journey toward something greater than myself. I'm especially honored to take it with her. Inside me however, there was a pink elephant in …
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I really wanted to come in here all gloom and doom, vomiting my fear all over this page and its readers but, that felt irresponsible. It's true that I'm more alarmed than I have ever been with the state of both corporate and political powers. At the same time, when I push past my feelings, I realize …
Today, Sandra Bland would have turned 30 years old. When I turned 30, I was home with a 3 day old baby. Maybe Sandra would be home doing the same thing today. Or maybe prepping for a trip to LA or Vegas to meet up with her girls, of whom she hadn't seen together since …
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