The sheer number of non-Black women trying to make themselves look as Black as possible while still exploiting their position above Black women in order to gain more traction, land modeling deals, etc. is not a result of “IG culture”. 

It’s a result of hundreds of years of devaluation and dehumanization of Black women. There has been not a SINGLE point in history where Black women’s bodies and beauty has not been policed or exploited. The exotification of Black women in a hypersexual sense lends easily to the current culture of “well this is just the new beauty standard!” because it has been stolen and molded to serve the needs of non-Black women.

Black women have been raped and degraded because of our beauty and the threat it poses to white femininity, we have been caricatured as mammies and jezebels to remove our sexual autonomy either by presenting us as asexual or innately promiscuous and sexually available, we have been punished for our natural bodies, forced to cover our hair because white women believed white men would lust for us, and then criminalized for the creativity in our ability to turn our oppression into a livable existence.

There is no “societal pressure” for women to racefake. There is no patriarchal system requiring non-Black women to present themselves as Black or to position themselves as close to Blackness / Black womanhood as possible. That is 100% home-grown misogynoir and white supremacy. Y’all aren’t victims of anything but your own devices when it comes to this. 

artist: Lucrezia Battelli source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JlvdOn

You have a purpose. Your existence wasn’t a mistaken accident, it was a creation from almost nothing to something incredible–a miracle even. You’re here, you’re breathing, growing, moving forward for a reason.

my favorite thing about being a black woman is how everyone copies us then act like they don’t

Black people ARE social media. We make everything pop. We are VINE, we are Instagram, we are Twitter. We are media and marketing. We are trends and hashtags (both ways). The one thing we are not is credited. We molded social media and all they ever call us is ghetto.

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe ?

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

Cecelia Ahern (via sunsetquotes)

“Repeat after me: I am the woman of my own dreams. I require no validation. My wish is my command. My life is my own. I build it. My voice is my own. I use it. I am relentless in my dedication to trusting myself. I am insatiable in my thirst for the extraordinary, and I do not settle for the mediocre. I Live Without Dead Time.”

— Robin Lee

Fun facts for antiblack poc:

• It is not black peoples fault your people aren’t getting the representation or visibility they deserve.

• It is no one’s fault but your own if you haven’t found or participated in activism aimed at helping your community.

• You can speak on your issues without simultaneously stepping on black people. Wild concept, I know, but you can do it! I believe in you!

• That hypervisbility you hate us blacks soooo much for having contributes to getting us harassed and killed and we hate it, too.

• Ya need to do betta

The sheer number of non-Black women trying to make themselves look as Black as possible while still exploiting their position above Black women in order to gain more traction, land modeling deals, etc. is not a result of “IG culture”. 

It’s a result of hundreds of years of devaluation and dehumanization of Black women. There has been not a SINGLE point in history where Black women’s bodies and beauty has not been policed or exploited. The exotification of Black women in a hypersexual sense lends easily to the current culture of “well this is just the new beauty standard!” because it has been stolen and molded to serve the needs of non-Black women.

Black women have been raped and degraded because of our beauty and the threat it poses to white femininity, we have been caricatured as mammies and jezebels to remove our sexual autonomy either by presenting us as asexual or innately promiscuous and sexually available, we have been punished for our natural bodies, forced to cover our hair because white women believed white men would lust for us, and then criminalized for the creativity in our ability to turn our oppression into a livable existence.

There is no “societal pressure” for women to racefake. There is no patriarchal system requiring non-Black women to present themselves as Black or to position themselves as close to Blackness / Black womanhood as possible. That is 100% home-grown misogynoir and white supremacy. Y’all aren’t victims of anything but your own devices when it comes to this. 

Blessings