Category: Articles
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Approved Personalities Only
There is a popular instruction that floats around the internet as the answer to everything: be yourself. It shows up in captions, bios, and comment sections as both encouragement and expectation. Authenticity has become the aesthetic of choice. Everyone is chasing it, branding it, and selling it. The truth is that the moment someone shows…
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Who Taught You How to Dress?
Everyone claims they have their own style. But if you trace any outfit back far enough, you’ll find an influence behind it. A celebrity, a TV character, a trend cycle, an older sibling, Personal style doesn’t appear out of nowhere, it’s taught, observed, borrowed, and slowly reshaped into something that feels like our own. Fashion…
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Same girl, New do’
How magical is it that Black women have the ability to shape shift simply with a hairstyle. But how odd is it that the reactions or attention received changes with each style Same face. Same resume. Same personality. New hairstyle and suddenly, the narrative shifts. A sew-in reads one way. Braids read another. Curls, a…
