UPDATED! Blackface 2.0: The Trend of White Women Posing as Black Women

Whitney Alese
6 min readNov 9, 2018

I am going to get right down to it: There are really white women out here painting, tanning, burning and dying themselves so dark, they can barely be distinguished from actually melanated people.

HuffPost recently shared an entire piece sparked by various conversations happening on Twitter when users @WannasWorld and @yeahboutella (who didn’t…

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Whitney Alese

Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.