How I Feel About My Hair
“Girl, you got that good hair!” “I know you’re Black, but what else are you mixed with, you got those defined curls?” “All that hair you have and you just cover it up!” “I thought when you had your hair straightened, that it was a weave!” How I feel about my hair you ask? I can’t reduce my feelings down to one descriptor. My relationship with my hair has been a journey, an odyssey if you will. From a young girl who rocked braids during the summers to sitting at my grandmother