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When I was younger, I wish I would have been told more often that I was right and nothing was wrong with me, that I was deserving of everything this world has to offer, and that my visions for my future were worthy of pursuit.

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I would advise any 17-year-old to surround yourself with people who listen to you, nod when you speak, and smile when you enter spaces.

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I want - no, I need - to see images of black girls and femmes twerking, slaying and primping, just as much as I need to see Symone Sanders bopping her head and Representative Maxine Waters reclaiming her time.

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I was born outraged. I was born without, knowing my people were not counted, not included, not centered. I struggled through low-resourced schools, communities, and housing projects.

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I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.

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I knew very early on that I was not pretty. No one ever called me pretty. It was not the go-to adjective people used to describe me.

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Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence, enabling me to build myself up on what I contributed rather than what I looked like.

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'Pretty' is most often synonymous with being thin, white, able-bodied, and cis, and the closer you are to those ideals, the more often you will be labeled pretty - and benefit from that prettiness.

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My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.

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For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 10th, 1983

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