Blog Detail
Girl, It's Not Just You
http://justyougirl.blogspot.com
A blog focused on Black women's body image issues as well society's various forms of pressure on the Black woman.
Recent Posts
Slightly random
It's been a busy busy week! Even though I haven't had the chance to blog lately, I'm grateful I've been so swamped. I've made some realisations and had a lot of lessons drummed into my head over the past week or so, many of which I've learned before....
Real Beauty
Name: Anna Renee OnyewuchiAn obstacle we black women are presented with is poor access to preventive medicine. We are always the ones with more Cancers, and other diseases that can be helped or prevented if we had the proper access to information. A ...
The 20/20 interview
Did anyone see Rihanna's 20/20 interview? I wasn't sure what to think of it. She didn't try to condone Chris' behaviour and that's what I had a bad feeling she was going to do. I'm glad I was wrong.I take the issue of every kind of domestic...
Brit regrets her Panamanian eye surgery
So remember that post on the woman who had surgery to turn her brown eyes blue? This is her (I think) on the Tyra Show talking about what she went through. She wanted to change something about herself, but she didn't want to get a drastic hairc...
Real Beauty
Name: Jemila AbdulaiI think the biggest obstacle black women are presented with is being labeled as one thing or the other and being placed in a box of either-ors. “You’re either beautiful, or you’re ugly.” “You’re either smart or you’r...
The Mooncup Revelation
So if you've read my single post on periods you'll know my relationship with mine is one of intense dislike. I don't mind conversations about periods as long as they're not about mine. I'm making an indirect exception today because I want to talk abo...

