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Seventeen year-old Nia Evans, picture above, who just graduated from Bowie High School in Bowie, Md., last week co-created the hashtag with her "How It Feels to Be A Black Girl" co-host Jada Mosely. #unconventionalblackbeauty began after a ranti about how black women are represented in the media, and what types of people are celebrated in the black community.
"I wanted this movement to show the girls who don't get all the Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook or Twitter likes," said Evans, who told me her "unconventional beauty" attribute was her tightly coiled 4C natural hair.
She says, if you're aware you already are the standard of beauty support but don't post.
In other words, she says, "If you know you won't find yourself in a magazine, this is for you."
I've been waiting for this since I angrily barged into my dad's car at 10-years-old after school one day and told him I was ugly. That my nose and lips were "too big."
My brilliant father said something I'll never forget. "Too big compared to who? To who or what are you comparing yourself? You ever thought that maybe their lips and nose were too small?"
And it was then that Middle-School-Me realized that my entire concept of beauty was on a Eurocentric scale.
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