Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope Helped Me Define Beauty On My Own Terms

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'JanetJackson was someone young, talented, and famous, with hair as big as mine. With so much confidence, she didn’t even have to show her face on an album cover.' s_dirshe

The moment you feel seen is powerful. For many Black women, that feeling is few and far between. For the State of Black Beauty, we asked four writers to recall the instance in their life they felt SEEN in media. From Janet Jackson to Eartha Kitt, here are love letters to our Black Beauty iconsThe year is 1997. I am 10 years old, lanky and trepidatious—about myself and the space I occupy in the world—growing up in Boston’s inner city.

 

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