Growing up, I swallowed the message that beauty meant looking like Margot Robbie. Reading A Raisin in the Sun helped me to embrace my blackness
As a teenager, I didn’t have the language to explain what I was feeling. No one had taught me about Eurocentric beauty standards and the white male gaze. I had never heard of “desirability politics”. When my sister, six years my junior and infinitely more beautiful and charismatic than I am, began expressing the same discontent with her face, her body, her, I was bewildered. And so, in that white classroom, Hansberry breathed articulation into my wordless anxiety and suddenly. I felt seen.
After graduating, I moved back home and I cut my hair. This time, when I answered that variety is fun, I fancied a change, relaxing my hair is expensive and difficult to manage, I felt the honesty settle in my chest and I smiled at my beautiful blackness in the mirror.
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