Features

Don’t Trip: 7 Ways to Take Advice Like a Boss

You get a D and a ton of red marks on a research paper. Your boss at your part-time job tells you how you could improve your customer service. Your coach gives you advice on how to better clear those hurdles, so you’re ready for your next meet. Maybe you feel hurt. Maybe you feel […]

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College Life

Roommate Rivalry: 4 Tips to Keepin’ the Peace

If life were like a rerun of A Different World, soon after meeting, you and your new college roommate would become lifelong BFFs. You’d help each other survive all-nighters, comfort each other with ice cream during hard times, and be the godmother to the other’s firstborn. While this can definitely happen, the opposite is sometimes true, […]

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Features

11 Reasons Black Girls Got it Like That

1. We are survivors. 2. We are pop culture cultivators. 3. We rock that sought-after golden glow year-round. 4. We have an entire movement that celebrates our awesomeness. 5. We have roots that stem from the birthplace of humanity. 6. We are full of soul. 7. We are versatile. 8. We love the Lord. 9. We are […]

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Love etc.

5 Places to Meet Bae this Summer

Summer is on its way. Love is in the air … for everyone (it seems), but you. Your girlfriends are all booed up, and while you’re happy for them, you are getting a little tired (and perhaps a bit envious) of hearing about how their man is joining their family vacation at the beach, or […]

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Features

What is Sesi Magazine, Anyway?

“Sesi” means “sister” in Sotho, a Bantu language mainly spoken in Southern Africa. We rep Black teen girls to the fullest — filling that void in mainstream media, in which Black girls and their voices are virtually invisible.

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