Blue Ivy Carter's DIY Experiment is a Hand-Washing PSAIn honor ofLatinx Heritage Month that an accompanying video would be dropping on Friday at noon.ContentView Iframe URLTwitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterTwitter contentView on TwitterLet us slide into your DMs.Sign up for theTeen Voguedaily emailWant more fromTeen Vogue? Check this out: merges poetry and young-adult fiction, with a heroine named Xiomara who finds confidence and acceptance through slam poetry. Acevedo’s own work is clearly also a place of solace: “You call them wild curls/ I call them breathing/ ancestors spiraling/ can’t you see them in this wet hair that waves like hello” she affirms in “Hair,” a piece that proclaims the beauty of waves and curls and the refusal to succumb to practices in order to make it more white adjacent. Watching her perform her poetry truly feels like seeing and listening to a sermon you never knew you needed until the last line is spoken.ContentView Iframe URLLet us slide into your DMs.Sign up for theTeen Voguedaily emailWant more fromTeen Vogue? Check this out: but her success isn't without its sacrifices. The 16-year-old opened up on the show about how difficult it has been to be away from home so such a long time — especially because her grandmother has Alzheimer's disease.