Black women are taught from birth that we are responsible for any attention our bodies attract. Instead of teaching girls to love and delight in their bodies, they learn to hide them because they will be shamed or assaulted. Watch Kimberly Foster explain that the revolution begins by shifting the paradigms for Black women and girls.

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Black women have long known the struggle of finding "nude" clothing and accessories that actually match our skin tones. We have never understood why colors that would be more accurately titled "pale beige" or "cream" should be accepted as the default skin color for everyone. Well, leave it to BuzzFeed to hilariously show what it's like to be a Black woman wearing "neutral" (read: neutral for fair-skinned people) clothing and makeup.

From The New School:  Join bell hooks and other leading voices in black feminism and the LGBTQ community: author Marci Blackman (Tradition), film director Shola Lynch (Free Angela & All Political Prisoners), and author and activist Janet Mock (Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More), in conversation about liberating the black female body.