Feb 3, 2021
10 min read
I Cut My Waist-Length Black Hair, and My Mother Took It Very Personally
We need to take the pressure off of Black women’s hair
I have good hair.
At least, that’s what I was told growing up. Thick, long, and fried straight to the point where it didn’t actually matter what my curl pattern was — no one ever saw my curls anyway. Throughout the entirety of…
