Dear Dark Skinned Girl is a blog focused on creating content to empower young Black women across the country and across the globe. Here, our team speaks out on issues colorism, hair discrimination, media representation, and more. Join the conversation and check out our most recent posts below!
Drag Performance and Black Lives Matter
Black drag queens have been at the forefront of social justice movements since Stonewall, and this past decade has only seen this trend continue. Popular…
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A Call Home: “Black Girl, Call Home”
Jasmine Mans’s poetry book Black Girl, Call Home was published this past March. The poetry collection explores concepts of femininity, sexuality, race, police and gun…
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The Colonisation of Black Beauty
Society has a love-hate relationship with Black beauty, our features are ridiculed and heavily disrespected, but they are loved and alluring on other races; just…
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Abolishing the Model Minority Myth
The model minority myth is an idea that encourages racism and drives a wedge between minority groups, forcing them to focus on being against each…
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