learning to love your(ethnic)self
because we are often taught not to
how i am coming to terms with my hooked nose
how i learned to love my big, ‘jewish’ nose — and, by extension, my religion: white
how i learned to love my big nose and lips
i’m proof you can learn to love a big nose
how i learned to love my face- nose and all
a journey of loathing and embracing big noses
love your big nose, because it connects you to your african roots
how i love my distinct (east) asian features
i used to be embarassed by my (east) asian features
how radhika sanghani learned to stop worrying and love her nose
bonus: the beauty of monolids, as told by 5 beauty bloggers
learning to love my body hair
a guide to loving your natural hair
coming to terms with my indian body hair in quarantine
leave my hairy arms alone
why it took me 19 years to embrace my brown skin and body hair
lebanese artist rallies againsts arab beauty standards (hair + nose)
embracing my body hair (.... kind of)
to those who feel left out by the body hair revolution: i see you
the black girls’ guide to shaving
how i learned to love my skin color (tw: lightening/bleaching)
how i overcame colorism and learned to love my dark skin
my journey in loving my morena skin
why i love my brown skin (poem!)
how i learned to love my morena skin
how i learned to finally love my brown skin (tw: skin whitening)
how i learned to love my black skin
unfair and lovely (tw: skin whitening/bleaching)
learning to love my brown skin (brief mention of skin whitening)
how i learned to love the color of my skin
loving my brown skin: poem
here’s how i learned to fully embrace that my black is beautiful
how “quarantine curls” reignited the natural hair movement.: black
real women share their kinky-curly hair stories
after 15 years, i’m finally starting to embrace my natural hair: black
how i learned to embrace my natural 4c hair pattern
embracing my naturally curly hair: nb
embracing (multiple types) of asian hair in all its glory
what it’s like wearing naturally curly hair as an arab american woman
why you need to embrace your curly hair: arab
i love my culture!: dominican
what does it mean to be african?
the love for my culture (poem/song)
how i came to embrace my culture: vietnamese
how i learned to embrace my culture: indian
my lunchbox moment: learning to embrace my culture: indian
embrace your unique latinx indentity
why is it important to embrace your culture and heritage with love?: nyonya
learning to embrace my heritage: AAPI (tw: cambodian genocide)
opinion: in our nation of immigrants, embrace cultural heritage: vietnamese (tw: violence against native americans)
how embracing my chinese heritage taught me how to respect myself and find the courage to become an entrepreneur.
embracing my family heritage: persian
embracing the african in african-american
how i learned to embrace my middle eastern self
it’s never too late to get in touch with your cultural background: chinese-american
some ideas on how to start reconnecting!
how i embraced my cultural heritage: turkish
This is by no means an effort to mass-educate, or make an “all-inclusive” list (that doesn’t exist, btw). It’s me sharing with other nonwhite teens things that have helped me understand myself and show that you are able to reconnect with and embrace yourself. In summary, this is a list of stories by POC who have learned to love themselves and their backgrounds.
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romaincrisis
2087
snowghoul
discoholicmusic
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