Tangled: How women of color are brushing away hair stigmas
“Natural hair is intimidating to them — it signifies pride,” she said. “It puts them off because it shows how we have found beauty within ourselves.”
“Natural hair is intimidating to them — it signifies pride,” she said. “It puts them off because it shows how we have found beauty within ourselves.”
All proceeds from the play benefited “V-day,” a global activist movement dedicated to increase awareness of violence against women.
There are times, through habituation, long cultural exposure, redundantly repeated usage, that words choose us.
It is exasperating, sometimes, that we need specified days to remind us to take action to prevent hurting other human beings.
Amidst a swirl of budget cuts and an ever-increasing workload, Mom resigned from her job as a school psychologist at the Watkins Glen School District in 2012. After resigning, she took up a profession she had been doing on and off since she was 18 and in college: bartending.