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Saying I Look 'Mixed' Isn't a Compliment
Writing for Clutch magazine, Shayla Pierce says she’s beautiful because of her blackness, not in spite of it. … I can tell by the way they say it. “You look mixed.” It’s the same smarmy inflection with which they deliver such classics like, “Let me take you shopping”; as if they’ve successfully implemented the line…
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Interracial Dating, a Civil Rights Protest
When XOJane contributor Shayla Pierce, a black woman, began dating and fell in love with her white boyfriend, she thought it was because of their own happy luck. Now, after watching Republican pundit and author Ann Coulter on Fox & Friends jokingly talk about white men dating black women as trying to be “Freedom Riders,”…
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Why Interracial Couples Shouldn't Argue About Race
XOJane‘s Shayla Pierce says that she needs to re-evaluate her approach to cultural conflicts with her white boyfriend. I had a fight with my boyfriend this past weekend. Which isn’t exactly headline news for most people, but we hardly ever fight. And when we do, it’s usually over something so trivial it’s embarrassing to think…
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I Learned to Cook for a Man; Am I a Sellout?
XOJane‘s Shayla Pierce reflects on a love-inspired change of heart about the kitchen. … It wasn’t just the men I dated. It was complete strangers, too. Men vying for my attention, somewhere between the standard questions of, “What’s your name?” and “What’s your sign?”, would routinely ask, “Can you cook?” This would generate the automatic…
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Single, No Kids and Celebrating Anyway
Tired of a culture that only seems to acknowledge domestic achievements, XOJane‘s Shayla Pierce says that she and her unmarried friends make a point to honor one another’s personal, nonmarital, non-baby milestones. So if I never have kids or get married, I’ll never get to pillage a department store, armed with an electronic scanner and…
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Sorry, I'm Not an Angry Black Woman
“Sorry to disappoint” is Clutch magazine writer Shayla Pierce’s message to those who expect her to be sassy or combative. Excuse me, but there seems to be a little something in my soup,” I said and pointed at the critter swimming inside the bowl … Mr. Waiter tightened his lips and stuck his hands on…
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True Story: I Buy Birth Control Out of a Trunk
Shayla Pierce of xoJane reflects on the struggle to afford contraception and how health insurance matters for the American dream. All this happened because I had the audacity to want to go to grad school. To make that happen, I had to put my grown-up life on hold and live in the back room of…
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