One student didn’t like the way society portrayed black women and chose to do something about it. “All the images that we see of women of color... we over-sexualize, fetishize and [eroticize] them,” Jo'Nella Queen Ellerbe, 22, said. “[We] don’t really have control of those images.” So Ellerbe decided to produce a photo project at Brown University with other students, Jacinta Lomba, 20, and Taylor Michael, 20, that aimed to show the beauty in black women’s bodies for a Women’s...
One student didn’t like the way society portrayed black women and chose to do something about it. “All the images that we see of women of color... we over-sexualize, fetishize and [eroticize] them,” Jo'Nella Queen Ellerbe, 22, said. “[We] don’t really have control of those images.” So Ellerbe decided to produce a photo project at Brown University with other students, Jacinta Lomba, 20, and Taylor Michael, 20, that aimed to show the beauty in black women’s bodies for a Women’s...
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