me that dreads the stares and inevitable questions. Ultimately I want to find a balance between the two and grow a genuine love for my hair without the voice of assimilation inside working me like a puppet. For the sake of our daughters and ourselves, we have to realize that our hair isn’t always curly and that’s okay too.
As long as it’s healthy and flourishing who cares! I dare you to rock a wild afro like Solange and Zazee beets or a tight, asymmetrical shaped fro like Lupita and dare anyone to question your beauty! Natural hair love is about loving your hair the way it naturally is no matter what anyone says or feels about it. Be unapologetically Black and unapologetically YOU. Everybody else will just have to deal.
Brittany Wright, B.A in Creative writing and English – University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, is an aspiring writer and creator of the She’s Wright blog. This black, millennial mom loves everything beauty, motherhood, and marriage related!