Reblogged from FeministsSA.com:
I'm not a fan of glossy magazines. I often buy one when I'm mentally exhausted and I'm looking for something frivolous to peruse and perhaps bitch over— "why does their skin look like plastic?" or I'm trying to build up a stock of magazines I will need for a classroom activity. Recently I purchased a copy of…
For a while now, I've been ruminating about a post about the complicated relationship with black hair but, as a light-skinned woman, it can sometimes be hard for me to remember the colorism that exists as well in the African and African American community.
