It’s Just Hair!

It’s Just Hair!

“It’s just hair! What is the big deal?!” Seems like a fairly harmless statement, but it is ignorant.  I feel comfortable speaking for the majority of black women on this…it is never JUST hair. Hair is never a simple topic for Black women.  Even the people who...
Hair Tings

Hair Tings

Hair Beginnings I’m really not my hair. Yet, it is very important to me. Hair is positioned as such a foundational thing to a black woman. Some of my earliest memories are of me getting my hair combed. My sisters marveling at my “grade” of hair and saying it was...