Dear Fashion Industry: Love Me Back.
Both the fashion industry and being plus size have had an effect on me from early on. I specifically remember being about 11 years old, out shopping with my family. We were at Gap in Times Square and nothing would fit me. I started crying in the fitting room and just remember feeling so ashamed […]
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Fuck You Fashion Industry
by Shelbi (@fuckyeahshelbi) Dear Fashion Industry, Growing up as a little fat black girl looking at magazines, watching runway shows, shopping in the mall, I literally never saw anyone who looked like me. My style had to be so different & unique because I had to get whatever I could find that fit & make […]
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Dear Fashion Industry: You Continue to Play it Safe
by Nya My junior and senior year of high school, I took a fashion design class. Honestly, I just looked at the class as an elective with no real intention of wanting to work in the industry like some of my fellow classmates. I’d for sure thought about it a few times, but overall, I […]
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“Don’t Let This Place Take Away Your Joy”: Marching to the Beat of My Own Drum
by Natachi Mez Edited by Sarah DeSouza: An older Black woman walked from the opposite end of the M60 express bus to stand next to where I was seated. Would you like to sit? I asked instinctively. No, but I’d like to hear you play that drum. With my fingers still tapping away modestly at […]
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Breonna Taylor, A Gemini Just Like Me
By Mangbe Editor: Lia James Say her name. Breonna Taylor. Her life mattered. Mine does too. I want to scream out loud. Because as a Black woman, I feel perpetually unheard. And that makes me want to scream even louder. On May 30th, at the NYC protest downtown, an officer elbowed me on my side […]
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An Honest Conversation with No White Saviors
[0:55] Blossom, Unplug: Ok amazing. So Hi guys, my name is Blossom or I guess, my indigenous, traditional name, whatever you want to call it, is Dauchi and I’m currently in Lagos, Nigeria. But my people are from Southeastern Nigeria. My tribe is Igbo, and I attend Barnard College along with the founder of Unplug […]
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Me, Myself and the Spice Girls: My Journey with Dissociative Identity Disorder
by AnonymousEdited by: Lia James and Sarah DeSouza TW: self harm It wasn’t until my senior year of high school when the blackouts got dangerous, when I would wake up next to scissors and blood in peculiar places, that I started to realize that this wasn’t just a case of a bad memory. For years […]
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Not Your Lesbian Porn: My Experience is Not for Your Consumption
by Quiya Harris I’ve always been hyper-aware of my body, its curves and dips, the way that my hips were a little wider than my shoulders – but, most importantly, how it made other people react. From the white boy in 8th grade who asked me for nudes, to the men screaming at me on […]
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Nepaicaqunak (I Will Not Be Silent) : A Response to Generations of Silencing
by Charitie Ropati Editors: Sarah DeSouza & Lia James Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault Waquaa, wiinga yupiuga, yugtuun uguvaa. Camiunga Karianaaq, Alaska. Hello, I am Yup’ik and my native name is Uguvaaq and I am from Kongiganak, Alaska. I first want to acknowledge that the following words are my own. I do not speak for every […]
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PG to Rated A: An Asexual’s Journey Through Love & Life
By Tatianna Dugué Not Another Happy Ending Everything I ever knew about love growing up was from movies. Even as I grew out of the fairytales and cheesy rom-coms, my perception of love was still the same. This story, though, doesn’t end with the guy getting the girl or even the girl getting the other […]
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