Adiba Nelson

They basically gave the Oscars the middle finger.

This was how my eating disorder began. This is when I first consciously ate my emotions. THIS is when I said, “I don’t need you to love me. I don’t need to love myself. I don’t need to feel or be felt. Hear or be heard. See or be seen. I just need to eat. I just need to eat because food will never judge me. Food will never leave me (unless I make it leave me, which I did. In college. A LOT.).

Give me a minute please. I’m a little busy trying to decide if I should throw something, burn something, take my eyes out and dip them in bleach after reading that shit, have a woosa moment, or just. fucking. drink.

Black women were branded as sexually promiscuous and immoral, which in turn was used as justification for sexual trauma/rape.

Enter: Lemonade. [...] Beyoncé reminds us that she is as real a woman as the rest of us. She is a strong woman, yet made even stronger in her ability to start anew.

Nicely done, MAC. Nicely done.

It is made up of women that I've known since I was 8, and women I met last week.

Shit. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t get so sassy right now.

Soy Adiba Nelson, y soy Latina también!

Dark brown girls should never ever ever ever EVER wear frosty pink lipstick. EVER. I don’t give a rat’s ASS what Cosmo says - just NO.