"I’m Stephanie Valerio. I’m a sophomore in college, I’m majoring in psychology and minoring in creative writing. Intersectional feminism is extremely important to me!"

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Brown Womyn

We are the cornerstone of perseverance
We are the cornerstone of endurance
We are the cornerstone of “thick skin”
We are the cornerstone of love

Brown Womyn
We just want to adore and be adored
We just want to be seen as beautiful in a world that tells us we are too ugly
our skin too brown
our hair too dark, too thick.
We just want to be seen as beautiful
in a world that makes us ashamed of being Xicana
We just want to be seen as beautiful
in a world that has internalized little brown girls into believing eurocentric beauty standards are ideal.

Brown Womyn
We want every type of skin to be recognized
from the darkest shade of brown to the lightest
We don't want to be labeled as “exotic looking”
We don't want to be“‘pretty for a brown girl”
We don't want to hear any “compliments’’
for being a conventional shade of brown
the only kind of brown that seems to be deemed slightly attractive
in this society that praises white skin

Brown Womyn
​We are beautiful
it's the world that is ugly for making us believe otherwise