I hope to God it’s a revolution

#NoMakeUp becomes the part of the conversation in a big way as Swizz Beats (Alicia Keys’ husband and super producer) posted a photo of his wife from a very raw and honest photoshoot for her new album with photographer Paola Kudacki. “I hope to God it’s a revolution,” Keys added. “‘Cause I don’t want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing.”

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From her essay, “Time to Uncover”, Keys writes,

Before I started my new album, I wrote a list of all the things that I was sick of. And one was how much women are brainwashed into feeling like we have to be skinny, or sexy, or desirable, or perfect. One of the many things I was tired of was the constant judgment of women. The constant stereotyping through every medium that makes us feel like being a normal size is not normal, and heaven forbid if you’re plus-size. Or the constant message that being sexy means being naked.

All of it is so frustrating and so freakin’ impossible.

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