“I’ve gotten super invasive questions like ‘how do you have sex’ and ‘how do you use the bathroom;’ I’m very much one of those people that try to teach people without telling them too much about my personal life, but it can get a bit tiring at times or creepy.”
[Video description: Jiya, a young Black American woman, talks to camera. She’s wearing a grey sweatshirt.]
Jiya Day is an American recent graduate and film-maker. She posts on TikTok about beauty, intersectionality and life as a young, Black disabled American woman. Read her quote in context in Allure Magazine here.
[Video description: Jiya talks to camera. Twitter – with the tweets mentioned – is behind her on a green screen.]
“I’ve gotten super invasive questions like ‘how do you have sex’” – Jiya Day. Photo: portrait of Jiya Day from Allure magazine: a Black woman in her early twenties, with a black afro and striking green eyeshadow on one eye. She’s looking straight at the camera and wearing a black stonewash denim jacket. (Photo via allure.com)
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