Miss Cellophane: A Scorned Magnolia’s Manifesto

Growing up in the Deep South as a Black girl is to learn how to navigate two worlds, where you are always existing in the state of the in-between. Even in your youth, you are subjected to treatment that is adultifying yet still told to stay in “a child’s place.” This translates to your inner world, knowing the desires that exist within you, but having to function and speak the performative language of your outer world as a means of survival.