MEET PRINCESS MADELINE-MOLLY-AMI-CLAIRE PIDDLEY-PODDINGTON-PUCKETT

Well she’s not actually a princess, but she sure pretends to be when she’s out saving black babies in *Africa*.

Indeed, the wealth her family accrued from the slave trade used to make her feel things she never felt and can’t put to words (ahem, guilt and shame, ahem), but she really doesn't like to think about that. For years, she explored anti-capitalist activism, mainstream-western feminist texts (Gloria Steinem is still bae even though she’s problematic hehe!), WOOFing, environmental DA, Adbusters and sustainable beauty products. But no matter how many (white, western) ideologies she consumed, those awful feelings kept coming back :

When her parents died and left her her inheritance, she felt the need to “find herself” and got on a plane to Liberia, where she’d never felt more alive or soulful in her life! It made her really understand that we are all one, and you can be home anywhere in the world. Oh, and she discovered her true calling: photography. It became her second favourite thing after pumpkin latte. 

Princess Madeline-Molly-Ami-Claire Piddley-Poddington-Puckett is working on a self-portrait series with the kids she’s teaching to read. She gathers the little Liberian children all around her because the contrast of dark to light tones is absolutely *divine*.

But when someone tells her her project is racist and that this is yet another narrative that centers white benevolence and uses black suffering as backdrop, her face puckers in horror and she says: