Growing up Brown: Desexualized and Hyper-Sexualized
I’m always surprised by the way I look.
Sometimes I look down and notice that my thighs are taking up much more space than I would like. Or sometimes I glance at myself in the mirror and realize that my arms are fuller and rounder than I expected.
I don’t expect to look like myself. I expect to look like other girls, girls who are on TV and in magazines, girls who people call “beautiful.”
I don’t want to look like them – not outwardly, at least.
I tell myself I don’t care if I’m not “beautiful.”
Robert Jones Jr. liked to jump double Dutch outside the Brooklyn home he grew up in. But his grandfather, a staunch follower of the Nation of Islam, forbade it. He
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