Beauty Tips & Tricks

Najiyah Imani photographed by Isabella Bejarano for Blanc Magazine

I define feminism as a movement where a group of people fight for the equal rights for all. This movement “defined” as feminism was started by females, a few men, and primarily african american men, who fought for equal rights for women during the late 1800s and early 1900s. These women and men were fighting for both women’s rights to votes, divorce, own property and for blacks rights to be free, vote, own property etc;

Feminism is nothing new. It is not “trendy”. It is the ongoing fight for humans to want equality amongst all under their government.

Do I believe in femanism, yes. Why? I want equal rights for all humans under the body of government where I live, which is the U.S.A

I believe in fairness for all. If a man rapes a women and the law is 1 year in prison then a women who rapes a man should get the same punishment. If a female who has 10 years of experience flipping hamburgers starts at 5.00 an hour, then so should a man but if that man can flip 100 burgers faster and gets a raise, well that is fair.

I believe in fairness and equality. Do I label myself as a feminist? Yes, but I can do so because I understand the history in my country of inequality. I don’t blame men or a certain class of humans for the inequality, I blame us all. You can’t point fingers at one group. You have to point fingers at everyone because we are all human, we have all put someone down at some point and participated in a way in shaming another group of people.