Just before my first date with Man #7, I decided to change my hair into braids I tried not to think about the sudden upswing of male attention I would get when my hair was long and straight. I hated myself for questioning whether I should have kept my hair long for the MOY to make myself more “easily digestible” so that men, black or otherwise, would see me as a viable option. “All the terrible stuff that happens outside the platform also happens within the platform,” she says, referencing the racial......

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