Violet Willems’s Reviews > Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good > Status Update

[...] one of my aunts put me in front of the mirror at age six and seven, and she said "you are gonna look at yourself in the mirror and say 'I love myself'. And then you're going to say 'I love Black people.' And at first I resisted, but then I was like "Ok. let's do this." and she was committed to that practice every time I saw her.