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The difficulty in watching Love Island as a Black Woman

If tuning in results in me becoming angry and hurt about the experiences of people who look like me, I can’t and won’t be supporting it. 

beauty, black, black women, gender, ITV, LoveIsland, Race, reality tv, Samira, TV, twitter, uk, woman, Yewande

Shave it, Wax it, Pluck it: Our complicated relationship with body hair

Shaved, waxed, plucked. The weird female relationship with body hair and what that means for feminism.

beauty, body, body hair, empowerment, female, feminism, hair, hygiene, laser hair removal, self esteem, self image, shaving, waxing, Willow SMith, women

Big hair, don’t care

I remember being a little 5/6 year old girl and telling my Mum that I wanted ‘white people’s hair’.

afro, america, beauty, black, blackhair, braids, britain, childhood, curls, ethnic, feminine, growth, hair, health, locks, natural, naturalhair, nature, perm, relaxer, woman

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