How do you feel about cultural appropriation? Collaborators Crystal Valentine and Aaliyah Jihad decided to address this topic with a poem called “Hide Your Shea Butter.”
The video embedded above features their performance at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Thus far, this moving piece has drawn more than 60,000 views on YouTube.
Click here to hear another collaborative piece from Valentine and Jihad called “To Be Black and Woman and Alive.” For more poems by these two writers, follow these links for to listen to Valentine’s “If Gentrification Was a Broom Then…” and Jihad’s “From My Mother To Her Late Daughter.”