You've seen it on your feed. You've seen it on your FYP, on your Pinterest. You've seen your best friend that just got out of that toxic relationship start to wear more shea butter, more jewelry. Listen to Erica Badu and say grand rising sista a lot more often. What is it? It's the earthy black girl aesthetic. Where did it come from? And why do black women feel such a gravitation toward it? There's a whole american black history of revolution, resistance, and reclamation behind it. I'm Taylor Cassidy, and this is black girl magic minute.

All right, so to start our journey, we first need to figure out what makes an earthy black girl. So to help me out with this, I asked my friend and my roommate, Ava Tete Oklu. She is the certified earthy black girl. Okay. Literally, when you type it in on Pinterest, you'll see her picture.

I'm Avatar clue. I'm 20, turn 21. I'm a ghanaian American. I'm a tourist. I enjoy the luxuries of life. You know, to form an earthy black girl outfit. Need a head wrap? Let's say you have, like, a little bando top, like, a little bandeau top, a little tank top, and, you know, you can get yourself a maxi skirt. You know, you get yourself a maxi skirt.

Or, you know, you can wear a mini skirt. I love miniskirts. You can wear a little mini skirt and then get you some bangles. Some bangles on your arms. You can do an arm cuff, too. Accessories is what elevates the fit. You know, it low key tells a story, too, because where you get it from, you know? Cause I know all of my jewelry. Like, they really do have, like, such sentimental meaning and value to me.

It's, like, even what I'm wearing right now. My mom. My mom got me this. What do you know about the earthy black girl aesthetic?

Big black woman.

Flowy skirts and waist beads and jewelry and things of that nature. Head wraps and stuff.

Head wraps. Lots of jewelry. Usually, like, either, like, thrifted or, like, passed down.

All right, all right, all right, okay, okay. But, you know, these things aren't randomly chosen just for the aesthetic, so let's go deeper. So, african head wraps, hats, and head coverings have always had significance in the black community. And you can actually learn more into it in my church hat video. But head wraps in specific, have some very political resistance behind them. During slavery, women would put cloths on their head to protect their hair and their heads from the sun. But because of this, it became a status symbol to basically remind these women that they were slaves. It was basically a marker of, remember, you're, you know, enslaved or whatever, which we hate that.

Now, in Louisiana, during the 17 hundreds, there was a significant amount of black people that were living free and in financial wealth. They had community. There were artists, authors, and just to note, just remember, this was before the Louisiana purchase, so this area was still governed by spanish authorities. So there got to a point where the non black people started looking around and being like, wait a minute. These negroes got too much drip. Sally, what's going on? And they started to get a little jealous, right? So, in 1786, from fear of us being, I don't know, the drippiest humans to exist on this planet that we are, the spanish governor, Esteban Rodriguez Miro, implemented the tingong las, which forced all black women to cover their hair to remind them that they were part of the slave class. Okay, what did we do? What we always do. We remixed that shit.