#the girls in queens

[theoffingmag]

The “something else” I felt was ancient: something both dormant yet familiar in the marrow of my bones, something that had always been there, but never seen, like a black box of data encoded within the bodies of all women. It was something, I understood on this primordial level, to be silenced until it was safe enough to unearth it.

Christine Kandic Torres, "Quarter Juice"

[littleblackbeauty]

every shade of pink,Silk bows,fall leaves,layers of frills 🧸☕🍂˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚

[ange1fawn]

Movies are the best distractions.

[k8mosss]

[mr-orange505]

[dairyofateenagegirl]

black women as vampires

[shitbl0gger]

[afroxa]

@ anabellacarrasco

[luccichiogattino]

this is so true

[callmeurrbunny]

i'm just a kid

i never use my brain

i only use my heart

and my imagination

[theoffingmag]

Image: side by side photo of the author, Christine Kandic Torres, sitting and smiling, and the book cover of The Girls in Queens

Studies have shown that so often Black and Latine children are sexualized and adultified at very young ages, and I think because of that, we become intimately familiar with managing this dichotomy at an early age. [...] We are cognizant of the male gaze, of the precipice of danger, before we should have to be, and I find that time interesting to write about: how we learn to navigate our own sexuality within a white supremacist patriarchy.

Read: Q&A with Christine Kandic Torres, author of The Girls in Queens

[gringlishgoth]

I give you my heart 🫀

[luxbunn]

oh whatever shall i do ౨ৎ

[k8mosss]

[delubabydoll]

god forbid a girl be a little controversial in her lifetime

[unknownn-girl]