The Black Hair Tax: No Breaks for Black Women Who Want to Avoid Breakage
Culture, Growth, Rebellion: The Symbolism of Hair Change
Each new colour and cut marked a new season of my life, a new personality I wanted to try on. For me, hair change was a way to demarcate and bookmark a transition. I desperately wanted something to indicate to myself that time was passing and that I was growing. Or maybe, I facetiously sought maturation and healing in the hair salon chair…
Religion, Culture and Consumerism: Searching for a Definition of Beauty
‘I like the bit where she says beauty is a currency.’ We had been reading Naomi Wolff’s The Beauty Myth, a book so quintessentially nineties that I could almost hear the melody of an Aqua song, feel White Musk burning the inside of my nose. Both the book and the reading group prompted an inner discussion about the beauty we are defined by…