Dear Black Girl: A Love Letter to My Younger Self
I would like to share that story with you and dedicate a love letter to my younger self and all the young Black girls reading this.
Women Empowering Women
Category: Personal Development
“Resisting the Urge to Bleach”
I was naive – oblivious to the forms of anti-blackness that surrounded me. I had no conception that my skin colour was less desirable, less wanted, and less loved in the narrow ideals of society.
Commodifying Self Care: Reflections on Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror”
Jia Tolentino asked herself, “how do I have a personal relationship with my face wash?,” so I asked myself the same question, and began thinking more critically about the commodification of “self-care.”
Overstimulation
As a generation involved heavily in the world of social media, work culture, and constant “bad news,” overstimulation is a very real risk. It’s not just a fancy term for being bombarded consistently, but rather an explanation for why we often experience burnout. It exists widely around us, whether we choose to ignore it or…
Overconsumption and Sustainable Fashion
Imagine this: You open up Tiktok to find an outfit-of-the-day pop-up. The comments are flooded with responses like: “How could you support fast fashion” “Imagine buying Shein” “This is disgusting…” Fast fashion has been one of the raging topics within the past few years. I remember being introduced to it in my grade 10 class…