A Girl Like Me

This one hurt my feelings a little bit. Its a shame but that our children still equate good and pretty with light & white . For sisters of color that have girls, we know how much of a struggle it is to find toys that our daughters can relate to. Toy makers have just started to catch on and are slowly making culturally diverse dolls that are just as pretty as their white counterparts. How many of us hated to get the black Barbie with purple lips and pink eyeshadow?? Still when you sit down and watch the movies with your baby , how many times have you seen the blond princess with the brunette friend or handmaiden. Or the raven haired villain. Subtle as it seems our children are savvy enough to catch on to the underlying message that dark is not good enough and still struggle with the misconception that beauty is tantamount to the shade of their skin.

Durty Thirty's

Well Monday was my Birthday and now I am an official member of the Thirty Somethings Club. I had fun drank a lot, passed out, and woke up wondering how the hell I made it home. I guess your thirty's are a lot like your twenty's..... :)