“Black girls hips will grow too wide and their boobs too big; they are too curvy to ever be successful in ballet.”
a girl in my pointe class legit told me this and after years of subtle discrimination and harassment in my classes, i quit. this shit is real and hurts a lot. Ballet is my first love and one day I would love to come back. I want to love and embrace it whole heartedly, instead of loving only the parts that love me back