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“Flower Nation”. Photographed by Felicity Ingram for Also Journal April 2019

I’m living for the self-love and positivity in the #tallgirltwitter tag

I wish the positivity was there for tall, fat girls, but it’s nice to at least see tall girls getting love, especially women of color.

Delicate Accumulations of Colorful Spring Flowers Installed in a Historic French Home

Fruit Tingle Talons

John Galliano 1993

You were closer the first time

In January of 2017 I began to check in with myself once a week.  I would ask myself questions:  "Who am I right now in this moment?”  "How do I wish the world saw me in my Blackness?”  I sought out to express the vulnerabilities I had been suppressing to protect myself through the Black female gaze.