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Black Twitter Slams Teen Vogue for Featuring Only Fair-Skinned Models in Feature About Senegalese Twists
Some argue the magazine missed out on an opportunity to give some face time to brown-skinned girls, since it rarely does.
In the June/July issue, one of its editors wrote about how she went to Rwanda and got Senegalese twists put in. The editor, Elaine Welteroth, a black woman, took photos of the process, and Teen Vogue ran those photos in the online version of the story. The print version of the story, however, features models and celebrities who are all fair-skinned or white.
Some saw it as a blatant dismissal of black women, especially chocolate-complexioned women, since there seemed to be a deliberate decision to change the visual direction of the story in its print form.
@TeenVogue A hairstyle predominantly worn by varying shades of Black ppl and you pick the lightest skinned black ppl to feature
— primordialpriv (@Primordial Privilege)
there is RARELY black women on teen vogue and the one time it is completely necessary, you have your generic white girls in BW hairstyles???
— niaisasquare (@Dounia)
Model Phillipa Steele also commented on Instagram, writing, “For the record, if anyone even cares .
there is RARELY black women on teen vogue and the one time it is completely necessary, you have your generic white girls in BW hairstyles???
— niaisasquare (@Dounia)
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gr..._featuring_only_fair_models_in_editorial.html
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