Sarah Gladstone

Lupita Nyong'o is “challenging” traditional ideas of beauty—but it's not because she's brown.

As Americans we have fallen prey to a particular "look" —namely white and thin—and suffer from an inability to shatter it. The result? A backhanded compliment of the hybrid variety: “You’re pretty . . . for a black girl.”

You say you want a revolution? We're having a nineties reboot . . . with the spirit of the sixties seeping in.