CELEBRATE JUNETEENTH. (Also this is a NikkiBeharie stan account.) cgpeoples
10 Movies Centering Black Experiences
Juneteenth has been such a big part of my life, and what made it special for me was the Miss Juneteenth pageant. As a young Black woman, I saw young women that looked like me, who were hopeful and excited about their future. That experience stayed with me and gave me confidence as a young woman. It's a story that has stuck with me, my whole life.
Typically, coming-of-age stories with a beauty pageant narrative are centered around the conflict of a suburban white girl's efforts to find herself while resenting her mother; a common trope of white femininity. That's compared to the beautiful relationship between Turquoise Jones and Kai Jones in, which uplifted the matriarchal tradition of being a single Black mother in the South.
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