Back-to-School Fashion Taught Me an Important Lesson on Disrupting Stereotypes

On many a frantic morning in my teenage years, my mother would yell upstairs from the kitchen for me to get dressed faster. "School isn't a fashion show," she'd say. Little did she know, the hallowed halls of my high school were indeed a runway - and my getting-ready process simply could not be rushed. Each day had a sartorial theme that I had painstakingly planned for weeks, even months. One week, I embraced my newfound love for purple and wore a lavender-hued outfit each day. Another time, I d...