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Throughout my life, it has been reiterated to me that being a part of the “in-group” was very important in order to have a good life. To obtain and maintain a community, I was taught that I must create a template version of myself that would be palatable to most people. Who I am, how I talk, the way I dress—we are taught to overcalculate our lives from the very beginning in order to further benefit ourselves as individuals; to understand the relationships we forge as alliance

Recently, in the comment section of a Miami Swim Week post highlighting primarily white representation, I made a comment on the lack of diversity coinciding with the taste level of the clothes themselves. What I was met with was shocking, to say the least. You would think people would get more offended by my comment on the taste level of the actual clothes rather than my comment on representation. It feels like however long and hard we scream for representation in markets mon

Is beauty a free market? This is a question I find looming in my head very often as I scroll through TikTok Shop, Instagram, Sephora, Ulta, and basically any other platform meant to sell “beauty” products, but instead selling vanity fillers. With the recent Patrick Ta launch, which was criticized not only for allegedly ripping the idea off of a minority makeup artist’s popularized technique, although one which has existed in the industry in a dialed-down fashion for a while,

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