The most maddening thing is the caption in the magazine, where they define an Afro as “not for introverts” and “ballsy and confident”. These attributes they’re pinning on Afro hair are often seen as negatives for black women, and are detrimental to how we’re perceived in the world. Not introverted, ballsy and…

i’m tired of seeing these types of pieces, but mainly bc of the stupid comments that follow. so here’s a quick breakdown for anyone *STILL* inexplicably in the dark:

“Using beauty and hair as a form of self-expression is a mirror of what’s happening in our country today.”

1. The preferred term is locks, not dreads.

The friend. In all likelihood the other guy won’t last too long on his own.

I used to have a dress that would make people give me their seats on the bus. I always felt it was kinder to take the seat than to go “Nope, just fat”.

This is similar to when people ask you on the train when the baby is due and you just ate a burrito right?

It is absolutely not celebrating the crime of Jack the Ripper but looking at why and how the women got in that situation in the first place.

I feel like Donald is something of a misogynist...?

Hey, there’s nothing wrong with a good old fashioned hate-fuck.

Not anymore he isn’t.

I’m putting Dunzo on the list for my kid’s middle name because I read this creatively.

As someone who named her son Luke Skywalker, you better believe this is a real concern.

I don’t know the plot of Star Wars VII, but lawd help these poor parents if Skywalker defects to the Dark Side.

He was also my middle school janitor.

What about

Are you that ignorant? Have you never heard of colonization and oppression? Do you have any idea about the history of the African continent? South Africa? Rhodesia?

tay ain’t dumb/

But in the way Taylor has made things about her, Katy has then tried to take the issue and make it about herself. I don’t know, I just feel like there’s a disparity between a “feud” over dancers and a much bigger issue involving race that eclipses whatever point Katy might have been trying to make that involved a…