Mariya Dempsey

“I’ve just never found a dark-skinned woman to be attractive.” During my early years of high school, I remember being a young, impressionable Black girl sitting in my math class at my PWI. I can’t recall which math class it was exactly, but I remember working on an in-class activity while I overheard three boys talking about their types. As I scribbled down numbers to look like I knew what I was doing, I found myself paying more attention to their conversation than my work. One of them – a blon

Throughout history, humankind has always concocted different ways to manufacture beauty. Corsets that cinch your waist to the size of a blade of grass, binding feet to fit into a doll-sized shoe, and more things than most of us can probably name off the top of our heads.  In the past, a lot of the beauty procedures circling the media seemed as though they were mainly for every unbelievably wealthy woman in Miami or LA, but there has been a very drastic increase in how people go about changing t