Black Girls Helping White Girls
19 Apr
Black Girls Helping White Girls–that’s the name I wanted to give the new workshop I thought I should start after wrapping up a community arts project on beauty with 14 African-American middle-school age girls in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
It was 2004, and I had been living in Tulsa, where my former husband is from, for about a year. If you’ve read my About page, you’ll know that I experienced culture shock moving there after living 18 years in New York City. Tulsa felt so segregated after living in the city for so long. I decided I had to get proactive if I wanted diversity in my life. […]
