Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readJul 28, 2019

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The point is that Zora was an active and central part of a movement to highlight and celebrate the lives and work of Black people, which is what I understand this publication to be. It’s entirely appropriate to use her name.

“with Harlem came the courage “to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame.”[18] Alain Locke’s anthology The New Negro was considered the cornerstone of this cultural revolution”

I’m not sure why you think that is political or divisive in any way, except for perhaps in the same way that some White men of any age have been upset that those who are lower down the dominance hierarchy are perhaps getting above their station by daring to celebrate their own lives, to discuss their own personal struggles, etc.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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