“The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and the…” — Yara Shahidi

I like to think I know a lot, but I don't. I'm motivated to learn more.

I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.

When you're a part of any protected class, whether it is being a woman, a person of color, a part of the LGBTQ community, or an immigrant, we're expected to get everything right and be the embodiment of perfection when it is not expected of other people.

Fashion is one of those places in which, when you're wearing something that feels like a representation of you, it does create, in a matter of speaking, a space for you to exist. Even if it's just in a two-inch radius of where you are. It's a walking, personalized area in which you can live.