postblackbabe:

When trans girls say they’re the most beautiful i get it, even though i’m not trans. When Asian girls say they’re the most beautiful, i get it, when any other women of color other than black women (which i am) say they are the most beautiful women on the planet i understand because for us it’s a reclamation of our personhood, we’re uplifting ourselves even though our society says we aren’t worth uplifting. We aren’t shitting on other marginalized women, because they get it too. So it’s appalling to me how quickly white girls will hop on a post about our empowerment as marginalized women talking about “*ALL* girls are beautiful.” Like our bodies as woc, especially black women, haven’t been commodified and co-opted and devalued for white female empowerment.