Express Yourself

For Black Girls Whose Voices Are ‘Too White’ or ‘Too Black’

A personal history of my ‘blaccent,’ whatever that is

Hey, Google, what the fuck is a blaccent, and how to I get one and get rid of it at the same time?

I’m trying to figure out how to talk with my “Black voice” as my theater mentors said I would. They said they could hear the edges of my Blackness in the way I said expecially instead of especially. They said they could…