“One in five Black women feel societal pressure to straighten their hair for work and more than half of Black students have experienced name-calling or uncomfortable questions about their hair at school.”
feel societal pressure to straighten their hair for work and more than half of Black students have experienced name-calling or uncomfortable questions about their hair at school.”
This idea that Black hair is not appropriate for public spaces can also be seen in the workplace, as ‘‘one in four Black adults have been sent home from work or faced disciplinary action as a result of wearing their hair in a natural or protective style’ according toAfro hair styling: “A celebration of my natural hair after years of bad relaxers and hiding it away”
However, after I had my third child and while I was at university, I found myself having to navigate the negative connotation placed on different forms of afro hair. This isn’t to say that growing up we didn’t have our own biases as to what we perceived as ‘good hair’ but, increasingly, I began to realise the types of hair that were seen as ‘appropriate’ had an impact on what jobs I could get and how far this new society would embrace me.
I don’t want to say it was just the pressure to conform because it wasn’t that. Looking back, I have no doubt that the desire to look appropriate, presentable and perfect, came from a place of constantly hearing that your hair isn’t those things. That it isn’t beautiful, isn’t presentable.
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