by Hana Omiya
Sometimes a girl just doesn’t fit in. Not with the popular girls, not into her pants, not even into that glass slipper called “daintiness” because a girl can’t always be the Cinderella that society wants her to be …
But it doesn’t mean she doesn’t like to play dress up every once in awhile.
This is a story about a boyish black girl who put on a different face to enter a local beauty pageant in Buffalo, NY. This is the girl underneath the cover-up, an exploration of her thoughts on beauty, race, femininity, table manners and sugar cookies. This is an experiment, a play on narrative, a multimedia book of sorts.
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