"I used to believe that by being a bonafide alternative black girl meant that I was denying an essential part of who I am — my blackness."

She was shamed in school for wearing a pink wig, but in her latest comic, illustrator Bianca Xunise opens up about her journey of self-love and how she realized there's no one way to be black. In her monthly comic series, Bianca Xunise invites us along on her journey exploring the many uncertain facets of millennial adulthood. This month: learning to love her black goth roots.

Read Loving My Inner Black Weirdo on Shondaland, and find more comics from Bianca at her website.