I May Never Be Ready to Fully Embrace My Natural Hair

I’m also officially done feeling guilty about it.

Shannon Hilson
ZORA
Published in
8 min readSep 22, 2021

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“I’m actually surprised you never decided to get on board with the natural hair movement. You’re one of the strongest, most authentic women I know, so I would have thought you’d be one of the first.” That’s something a female friend of color said to me not all that long ago.

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Shannon Hilson
ZORA
Writer for

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