“This is based off of media and how it portrays us as Black young females,” Carla said. “If you see a [Black] girl in a movie even, if you see a girl wearing short shorts, and you see a guy, you automatically know they’re going to hook up. If you see a White girl wearing short shorts, you automatically know she’s going to the beach or something. . . . They have no reason to do it school-wise. You don’t know everybody’s story, everybody’s reason for what they have on.” In the public imagination, assumptions about the sexuality of Black people make clothing style a socially accepted (though
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