Senegalese model, Khoudia Diop, is popular on social media not only because of her stunningly dark skin, but her fiercely unapologetic attitude towards it.
Khoudia Diop is one breathtaking charcoal beauty. Just look at this.
She was featured in the newly launched ‘The Coloured Girls’ Campaign (TCG), a project that aims to be a voice for girls of color.
In a world where body and skin tone shaming are everyday realities, this model’s pride for her skin and heritage is everything.
If you know you body shame people, you can now rest.
Join us in appreciating this black queen please.
Racism is very much alive especially in the movie and fashion industries (word to the Oscars).
Although American clothing brand, Gap tried to address diversity with this ad in 2014.
And also preach girl power in this campaign that features the only all-children humanitarian circus troup in the world, Le Petit Cirque.
meet the kids who are proving that girls can do anything.
Nigerian-American filmmaker and blogger, Antonia Opiah, launched Pretty in January this year, to explore black women’s perception of self-image, across the globe, in spaces that tend to favor Euro-centric beauty archetypes – you know, blonde hair, blue eyes.
Pretty travels round the globe asking black women: “What is pretty?” So far, Pretty has touched down in Paris, Milan and London, and after Europe the series is coming to Africa and then North America and South America.
The series also records every woman’s message about beauty in their “traveling notebook.” See some messages:
