I’m Sending Thoughts and Prayers to the ‘Gorilla Glue Girl,’ Tessica Brown

Straight talk: Straight hair has been slowly killing Black women for years

iWriteTee
ZORA
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3 min readFeb 9, 2021

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Black woman covering her face with hands in stress.
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I’ve watched in horror over the last few days as this tragedy unfolded when Tessica Brown said she used Gorilla Glue instead of the horribly named Gorilla Snot to lay her hair down. She apparently went to the…

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