Just recently we covered Franchesca Ramsey’s video on how the outright fetishization of biracial children is problematic. However, these attitudes and similar that are drenched in the aesthetic of anti-blackness still manage to show up on timelines. The #BeingBlackisPrettyEnough hashtag was created by twitter user @XLNB in response to a tweet by another user that fetishized biracial children; specifically that of black men and non-black women:
Here’s the rest of the inciteful dialog by @XNLB that sparked the #BeingBlackisPrettyEnough trending hash tag below:
https://twitter.com/XLNB/status/661681841594724352
Not long after the conversation went viral, many black women took to twitter to share their photos and stories of self acceptance, struggle and body positivity under the #BeingBlackisPrettyEnough hashtag.
https://twitter.com/_DoReMimi/status/662772665615319040
https://twitter.com/drunkdragonmom/status/662329930714390530
https://twitter.com/KaylaJanay_/status/662305998519066624
https://twitter.com/DarcysLadyLove/status/661565518420267008
#BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough because a drop of anything else doesn't automatically grant me beauty. I don't have to be mixed to be pretty
— Nzinga ✨ (@thequeennzinga) November 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/darlingd_xo/status/661437161749647360
https://twitter.com/FLEEKBOYYYS/status/661548236491083776
#BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough because it just is. We don't have to explain OUR beauty just because we aren't "mixed" and you don't understand💁🏾🙄
— Legs and hips and BAWDY, BAWDY!🦵🏾 (@DarkVisenya7) November 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/under_TAA_sea/status/661618239101870080
#BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough 💫 pic.twitter.com/PbEOKigew5
— EarthtoGazelle (@EarthToGazelle) November 3, 2015
#beingblackisprettyenough because I refuse to live in society's standard of beauty… Fuck that I'm too cute👅💦 pic.twitter.com/zvfFRibQxJ
— ❤IsMyAlterEgo❤ (@LyfeIn_Greek) November 3, 2015
#BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough ❣ pic.twitter.com/v3vYi0bFbb
— Vagina Vigilante 🦸🏾♀️ (@galacticathena) November 6, 2015
#BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough is a beautiful thing to me, I love the skin I'm in and wouldn't want to be anyone else 😌 pic.twitter.com/bbSKKGnLWp
— Reneé 🇯🇲 (@SimplyAfflict) November 6, 2015
Because #BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough 💁🏽 pic.twitter.com/DlFZG1uDut
— Gia (@geraya1) November 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/hoeforzustin/status/661683245516484608
Of all the things that can happen to your baby (health concerns), skin-tone and hair texture matters more? #BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough
— LemonSquared🍋 (@LemonClarkMedia) November 3, 2015
For the women and girls who don't "look" Latina because we have darker skin and not-so-curly hair, #BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough ❤
— LANI (@LittleFoot_Lani) November 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/_CrystalsTruth/status/662393531131146240
https://twitter.com/hotlamedoll/status/661427683587305472
I'm not mixed at all, and I get questioned all the time about who I am and where I come from like, #BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough
— – Ꭰ. (@_diamonnds) November 8, 2015
https://twitter.com/d_andreaaaaa/status/663232494657933313
#BeingBlackIsPrettyEnough 👸🏾💁🏾✊🏾👏🏾 pic.twitter.com/8vfHS97QC6
— 𝙱𝚎𝚌𝚌𝚊. (@MJFINESSELOVER) November 8, 2015
Share your thoughts below on the #BeingBlackisPrettyEnough tag!
So glad that so many people are standing up to this pervasive self-hating mindset.
yet I’m looking for the founder of the #beingblackisprettyenough hashtag and twitter says his account has been suspended. I wonder if it’s because of the movement he started. It’s a shame when black people try to unite under a common goal of self love and acceptance only to be derailed. I won’t be surprised if some who reported his account in the first place were black. As i like to say..black people are our own worse enemies. I don’t know why it’s so hard for us to unite for the betterment of our race. When there’s one or a few… Read more »
#AndBeingUnprettyIsOkayToo
Am I the only one tired of playing the olympics to be number one in the male gaze?