Black Feminist Collective

Is it Open Season on Natural Hair?

By Teresa Younger • Complete with unsolicited comments,touching attempts from strangers, and pressure to do away with your coils right now, or you risk the shame of being prevented from attending your graduation or losing gainful employment? Is natural hair controversy a real thing? How have generations dealt with this constant problem?  My news feed … Continue reading Is it Open Season on Natural Hair?

Black Feminist Collective

Why I Didn’t Participate in the National School Walkout

By Stephanie Younger •  I am writing this as a Black student activist who was turned away and excluded from speaking by the white student organizers of the Virginia #NationalSchoolWalkout Protest, that took place on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting, at Brown’s Island in Richmond, Virginia. I was informed that I was … Continue reading Why I Didn’t Participate in the National School Walkout