“So I am a ‘bad woman’ because I take up space, wear whatever I want, curse if I want to, laugh entirely too loudly, believe in things I find believable, and I don’t take no shit.”Tagged: bad girl
“Slowly, white people taught me that no matter what I did and how I behaved, I was never going to read ‘good’ to them because of the deviant brown body narrative.”Tagged: racism, Brown Girl Magic
“A ‘good girl’ as I have seen it defined: goes to church, marries ‘right,’ dresses modestly, never raises her voice, always smiles, is always friendly and approachable, never curses, doesn’t drink or only drinks the appropriate amount of alcohol, does not gossip, does not stir the pot, and is…”Tagged: good girl, bad girl, Misogyny, Internalized Misogyny, feminism