In a time when Black women and girls must still fight against hair discrimination in schools and in the workplace, this project investigates the cost of beauty and celebrates the beauty of Black hair.
Read Morefor the love of black girls.
“Our laughter is a holy hymn: it preaches sermons, disrupting service, making servants of our grief…”
FTLOBG an invitation to reimagine our personal histories; an observation of what it means to feel at home in one’s body; a reconciliation of the childhood selves we have either outgrown or been forced to leave behind.
Read Morei opened my mouth and found an amen.
“I opened my mouth and found an amen, pulled from the throats of women searching for the heart of God. I opened that amen and found my grandmother’s praying hands, calloused from years of raising children that were not her own..” — Titilope Sonuga
Read Moregood morning mercy.
Mgbe onye ji tete bu ututu ya — “Whenever one wakes up is his own morning.”
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