We haven't been inclusive...

 When I first began sourcing content for Edith & June 3 years ago, I was hell bent on creating an inclusive clean beauty community that was reflective of the people who used and loved clean beauty as much as I did. 

This is evident in the early Pinterest boards that I used to organize visuals for the website. However, at the time I was unaware of the unconscious leniency towards sourcing photos of white women I still held, and after our initial launch, which was inclusive of many different black women and WOC, that became apparent.  

I’m unsure if this bias stemmed from the systemic racial biases that I’ve been educated about this past week, or whether it was a bias based on people who looked like me. Edith and June is a one women show (hence the sometimes spotty posts) and I am a white woman, but that doesn’t excuse being exclusive and I want to apologize to the black community for any exclusion I have shown, or made any clean beauty lovers feel.

So what are we doing about it?

I’ve made a personal donation to Color of Change and Black Girls Code and we’re also committed to ensuring that at least 50% of the faces posted on our social and site are that of POC.

I’ve also realizes that it’s near impossible for Edith & June to have a wide-range in content without a wide range of writers and incorporating more WOC into the pieces on our site as guest writers or portfolio boosters is a huge goal of mine for the next year. Since E&J is a passion project and sadly doesn’t make any money it would be simply for resume or hobby purposes, but sometimes, free product is in the mix.

If any WOC are passionate about writing about clean beauty, or want to get some pieces published to put on a resume or CV, please email edithandjune@gmail.com.

Edith & June was created to serve all kinds of women: women of all different races, ethnicities, self-identities and walks of life with one goal in common- to bring clean beauty into the modern eye and reduce the amount of wasteful practices in the beauty community. Obviously, we have failed at creating an inclusive beauty space and have to do better. We’re here to be held accountable for our wrongs and we’re moving full steam ahead into an anti-racist future that is inclusive of all women.