Grace & Sensuality, F*ck Fatphobia
I am affirming the Goddess within. I am not just an activist , healer, and mother to the motherless but I also have a sensual essence within. I constantly hide my inner Sensual Goddess because I have been sexualized constantly. People often prioritize my sensuality over my soul. Friends who know me know I love lingerie, yet I am always afraid to post photos of my free and affirmed side feeling that I am too curvy and will be over sexualized or shamed.
Today I am 30, and fuck that!
Reclamation brought joy in my being, and I could hear myself self-coach: it’s only information, it’s just what people say or do, it means nothing about me. I get to celebrate me. I have the power to educate or not. I have the access to say sexualized comments are welcomed or not. I am my truth and I celebrate me!
Body image and beauty among African American women across the identity spectrum can only be truly understood within a framework of interlocking systems of “isms” – (e.g., racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism). Black women’s bodies and beauty have largely been devalued and rejected by mainstream culture, which overvalues the European aesthetic and undervalues the esthetic of other racial/ethnic group with of exception of eroticizing them.
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