Black Women Don’t Have to Look ‘Perfect’ All the Time
It’s okay if your edges aren’t laid.
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5 min readMar 30, 2021
When I was a small child, I spent every morning on the floor watching cartoons while my momma secured my hair in tight braids wound with hard plastic bobos and fastened with butterfly-shaped barrettes. All of my outfits were perfectly color-coordinated and pressed free of any wrinkles. I was explicitly told not…
