When I was 15, I was told that I didn’t need to speak about the murders of unarmed Black people in America, and I just needed to “get over” culture appropriation, when the same “boxer” braids White women were putting in their hair hindered Black women from getting jobs.  When I was 17, I saw… Read more

Dear White Women, Your feminism is not MY feminism. As long as I continue to make less money than you, no matter the degree behind my name, and I have to wait for a law to tell people they cannot discriminate against me because of my hair… Your feminism will never be my feminism. As… Read more