Raising an Afro-Latina: Unlearning My Preconceived Notions about Blackness

As a baby of the 90s, I did not have many dolls that looked like me except for the Bratz dolls Sasha (the African American) and Yasmin (the Latina). Even then, they did not have curly hair, let alone kinky afro hair like me. Instead, they had bone straight hair so long it passed theirContinue reading “Raising an Afro-Latina: Unlearning My Preconceived Notions about Blackness”