To build their Dream Boards, many people use magazines to cut and paste pictures and bring their visions to life.
I no longer do that.
Here's why:
1. Magazine pages are mostly ads.
2. Most magazine ads feature women who are "young, thin, white, beautiful, carefully groomed, and polished."
3. I am not a young, thin, white woman.
"But, Mahlena; what if I am a young, thin, white woman?"
