Black Women, Our Bodies & Perceptions of Beauty: Straight Hair
What if you swapped your hair with your body in your list of priorities? This wouldn’t even be an issue then, would it?
What if you swapped your hair with your body in your list of priorities? This wouldn’t even be an issue then, would it?
To my knowledge Chris Rock’s movie, Good Hair, doesn’t have a fitness element to it, no. Although I did catch a clip of Raven-Symone (I think?) saying that our hair
“Beauty is pain,” but “beauty isn’t sweat.” Women are supposed to sit still and be pretty, like trophies, or porcelain dolls or something.
There’s that looming debate over why women of color are so adamant about having straight hair. Some assumption that it is so thoroughly related to societal definitions of beauty, European