"Being Black is Lit:" Talking #BlackGirlMagic with the Melanin Goddess
Senegalese model Khoudia Diop opens up about the societal pressures of being a dark skin woman and how she has come to love her skin.
February 28, 2017

For black women, celebrating our beauty and relishing in our glorious melanin is an act of self-love, a well-deserved slap in the face to Eurocentric beauty ideals attempting to convince us that black skin—particularly dark skin—isn't beautiful.
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We all know the deal: black women aren't beautiful in spite of our blackness, we are beautiful because of it. With her career as a model, Khoudia Diop (aka Melanin Goddess) has embodied this truth.
In the #BlackGirlMagic video below, we talk to the Melanin Goddess about how she learned to twirl on her haters and fully embrace her dark skin.
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