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Are you a POC who doesn’t find themselves attractive? This song is for you: Are you comparing yourself to someone specific when deciding that? Are you measuring yourself against Cis Able Bodied Whiteness
The more attractive I’ve found myself the less attractive I’ve found them
The more attractive I’ve found myself the less attractive I’ve found them
This is no coincidence
I’ve been training my brain to perceive My Afrocentric features through a fresh lens unrelated to comparisons to white features and y’all
I’m different now, I’m happier with me and in my own skin
My body dysmorphia was related to this white gaze
I’ve been training my brain to perceive My Afrocentric features through a fresh lens unrelated to comparisons to white features and y’all
I’m different now, I’m happier with me and in my own skin
My body dysmorphia was related to this white gaze
We learned about Foucault’s Panopticon at my HS, but we didn’t expand it the way I wanted to at the time
That panoptic gaze that follows us everywhere? It’s a white Cis abled gaze and it glares and it grimaces and it makes us feel alien exotic ugly worthless
Cast it away
That panoptic gaze that follows us everywhere? It’s a white Cis abled gaze and it glares and it grimaces and it makes us feel alien exotic ugly worthless
Cast it away
You’ll find yourself finding your people more attractive too, you’ll find yourself seeing softness where you hadn’t before
You’ll find yourself being more welcoming to Yourself and more Forgiving
Pretty Privilege is essentially having the privilege to be treated as a person
You’ll find yourself being more welcoming to Yourself and more Forgiving
Pretty Privilege is essentially having the privilege to be treated as a person
That’s a controversial take, but it’s why I don’t really Believe Pretty Privilege applies to marginalized folks and to white folks the same way
For white people it’s given access no one else gets
For marginalIzed folks it’s being given the most baseline of humane treatment
For white people it’s given access no one else gets
For marginalIzed folks it’s being given the most baseline of humane treatment
In conclusion: if you’re POC and you think you’re unappealing you’re probably just in need of a mind de-colonization
Which is a phrase that makes my skin crawl and it should it’s really invasive my Thoughts have been colonized, but it’s true
I’m pretty and I never knew
Which is a phrase that makes my skin crawl and it should it’s really invasive my Thoughts have been colonized, but it’s true
I’m pretty and I never knew
