The Black Hair Tax: No Breaks for Black Women Who Want to Avoid Breakage
‘Like Taking Myself on the Ultimate Date’: My Solo Travelling Experience and the Journey to Enjoying My Own Company
Solo travelling has really helped me to grow into myself. I chose to take my first solo travel experience for my birthday, and I don't know if I’ve ever felt more pride for myself than when I was able to wander around the streets of Italy on my own on the evening of my birthday, a bag of cannoli and a lot more confidence than I’d felt before…
‘Love is Not a Finite Resource’: Celebrating My Conceited Era, and Why You Should Too
I’m in love with myself. Literally. I am the prettiest girl in the world. I watch my Instagram stories on repeat. I buy myself gifts. I’m simply obsessed with me. Call me conceited, selfish, self-absorbed or all of the above, but it won’t change a thing…
Want to Be a Baddie? Then You Better Have the Body: Why I Hate Social Media
Tiktok has many videos about the pain and torture that so many young women have gone through during and after various procedures. There are those that claim that plastic surgery was not worth it in the end; some received botched results. Thought processes are overshadowed as social media influencers and celebrities promote being an ‘It Girl’ or ‘Baddie’: most associate that personality type with having an attractive body…
‘For Centuries, the Image of Femininity has been Thin’: Reclaiming My Fat Body as Feminine
Femininity and its association with petite elegant beauty is a stereotype that harms us all, not just fat women. When was the last time you went into a shop and saw pretty clothes advertised to fat women? Clothes that had a floral pattern, clothes that were pink, yellow, or green. Clothes that were figure-fitting and not just baggy and oversized. People will never view my fat body as feminine because I was never given the chance to present myself as feminine…