Jordan McDonald is a writer, editor, and student at Dartmouth College studying History and English. Her essays, criticism, and poetry have been published in Huffington Post, Artsy, Africa is a Country, Smithsonian Voices, Teen Vogue, Bitch Media, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and more. When she is not writing, she is either asleep or on Twitter. She really wants you to know that she is an Aries.

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Negrita

By JORDAN MCDONALD

She is a history of black girlhood distilled by time and brutality.