“Do black females lives matter, too?” That's the big question 16-year-old Amandla Stenberg posed on Instagram on Sunday. The powerful post broke down the bullsh*t cultural double standards that plague black women every day. “Black features are beautiful, black women are not,” Stenberg wrote. “White women are paragons of virtue and desire, black women are objects of fetishism and brutality. This, at least, seems to be the mentality surrounding black femininity and beauty in a so...
Amandla Stenberg: Black Female Bodies Are Treated As Less Than Human
The Huffington Post - 13 Jul 2015 23:48
“Do black females lives matter, too?” That's the big question 16-year-old Amandla Stenberg posed on Instagram on Sunday. The powerful post broke down the bullsh*t cultural double standards that plague black women every day. “Black features are beautiful, black women are not,” Stenberg wrote. “White women are paragons of virtue and desire, black women are objects of fetishism and brutality. This, at least, seems to be the mentality surrounding black femininity and beauty in a so...
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