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Honey, Turmeric, Lemon

Briana Gwin by Briana Gwin

The girl you ask to dinner will never show you her true face. Her deep, caramelized skin is carefully concealed beneath layers…

Culture/ESSAYS/On Blackness and other wonders

Honey, Turmeric, Lemon

Briana Gwin by Briana Gwin

The girl you ask to dinner will never show you her true face. Her deep, caramelized skin is carefully concealed beneath layers…

Culture/ESSAYS/On Blackness and other wonders

the privilege of size

Jasminum McMullen by Jasminum McMullen

My story will be faithful to reality, or at least to my personal recollection of reality, which is the same thing. The…

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I Geek Out Over Art!

April Renee Lynch by April Renee Lynch

I guess I’ve been an art historian, informally I’d say I’ve always “geeked out over art,” since my teens in San Francisco.…

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The Language of Home

Icess Fernandez Rojas by Icess Fernandez Rojas

I hear my student say that word and I’m not surprised. I knew this student was going to say it because this…

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A Prayer to the God of Scent and Stench

Avatar by Justin Teopista Nagundi

Dear God, It’s your Ugandan daughter, with the 4C hair. As you know, I was born in Mengo Hospital between day and…

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Afrodite

Paulna Valbrun by Paulna Valbrun

“African-American girls always score higher than their white peers when it comes to self-esteem,” one of my High School teachers lectured. I…

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