Amy Quichiz was born and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens NY, and grew up with her Colombian mother and Peruvian father. She recently graduated from Syracuse University, receiving a bachelor’s in
Through multiple hours of constantly scrolling through Tumblr, flipping through Teen Magazines, and watching white girls dye their hair pink—I desired to be white. I would look down at my brown skin and feel ashamed, feel ugly, and even condemn my mother for it. I was not always like
Dear white woman, You say you love me, But do you love the brown me? Do you see my curves, The way they write multiple letters, in a language that you do not understand. Do you wish to understand? The way I perk my lips to give kisses, to brown
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