Jazmin
Women of Color Alternatives to Marilyn Monroe
Everyone loves Marilyn Monroe. A 26 foot tall statue of her was created to honor her famous scene from The Seven-Year Itch. It is complete with gigantic, lacy, white panties. Countless tourists have had photographs taken of them nuzzling her enormous foot. This is questionable behavior. How many of those people have even seen The Seven-Year [...]
Black Venus
By Jazmin on August 6, 2012
Maxim Vakhovskiy is a North Carolina-living, Eastern European photographer who is creating a book full of pages and pages of naked, black women. As a gorgeous black woman who enjoys seeing other gorgeous black women, I really wanted to like this project. At first glance, it seems awesome. The artist is looking to celebrate black [...]
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