Black & Ugly & Here

Black & Ugly & Here
BY Lucy Gellman | February 21, 2019 | Arts Paper

We are standing in a waterpark with Porsha Olayiwola and her lover. The sun is high overhead, warming their skin. It’s one of those exposed shoulder days, those thigh touching thigh days. One of those bathing suits are on and joy is permitted kind of days. And then, on the fourth waterslide, the attendant asks Olayiwola to get on a scale. more