Tag: tweens

The Soapbox: On The Need For Safe Spaces For Girls Who Develop Early

I started puberty earlier than my peers. Like 23 percent of Black girls and 10 percent of white girls, by about seven-years-old, I was already developing breasts. I remember the day my mother came home from work with a plastic shopping bag in hand. “You’re going to have to start wearing one of these,” she said as […]

Disturbing Fashion Trend: Tween Thongs

We just started wearing thongs, like, yesterday. [Not really, but we have only three pairs and we hate every second of wearing them.] They are uncomfortable and expose the not-so-cute butt cheeks and only serve one purpose and that is to prevent VPL when we’re wearing something tight or sheer-ish. Which is why we don’t […]