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So here's a word for the Laid edges, snatch edges hair shaming crowd... kinky hair doesn't naturally lay down. Ummm thats not how naps work. Yes traction alopecia is caused from tight styles but LOOOOOOOOOONG before your youtube tutorials and "natural hair" wokeness The world told Black mamas and daughters to perm their heads and then put them in tight pulled back hair styles to be acceptable. Laid edges...So MANY OF US developed traction alopecia. Now everyone wants to act as of that reality never happened. Now we want laid edges but proud kinky coils at the same time ...lol while still valuing some hair textures over others. Still SHAMING black girls about their hair and acting as if there is not an ENTIRE history to reckon with. If you want to help Black women, girls and femmes, first stop telling Black shaming them about THEIR HAIR. Secondly, stop valuing "laid edges" over whatever other hair in whatever other way is growing out folks scalps. Lastly, check in with yourself HONESTLY. See where you are still holding your own deep indoctrinations about the " rightness" and " wrongness of Black folks hair and your own. How about we all start there! #Repost @theslumflower • • • • • I have a condition called traction alopecia (please do not offer me any remedies/solutions. I like how I am) and I’m still a 10/10, still a divine goddess, still powerful, because I said so and I do NOT owe anybody ‘laid edges’ (smooth baby hairs) - which if we are really being honest, is a celebration that is still rooted in anti-blackness because we know that people with coarser hair textures (who tend to be the darkest skinned) often cannot have ‘laid edges’ and this should not be a benchmark for Black beauty. 🥰 You don't have to stay in a shitty relationship #Repost @moveoutofmadness • • • • • Such a powerful quote from the powerful book The Body Is Not An Apology by @sonyareneetaylor ⁣ .⁣ .⁣ I have been thinking about the work that interracial relationships require from a justice framework I have been thinking about how the world and these systems impact how i get to love and be loved. How the systems live in us and so the work is always intimate. And i am thinking how i love this human who loves me. How we practice in us what we want to see in the world: equity, justice, care. I love my love @shyvolcano75 . I am grateful to journey with them. Practice radical love with them. Undo the world with our choice to love each other. repost @rachel.cargle I am sick of White people, thin people, able-bodied people, neurotypical people debating my Gotdamn life!!!!! #Repost @kaliandkalki • • • • • Am honestly quite depressed. I’ve been crying on and off since the news broke. ➵ * #whitesupremacy kills. It maims. It destroys. When will white people take responsibility for what they have wrought? ➵ * I’m exhausted. Imagine how exhausted we are, fighting to be heard, to be treated as human, to remain alive. ➵ * Please, we need comrades, not allies. We need white people who will step up and put their bodies on the line and defend us publicly. ➵ Where are all the good white people? Where are you when this happens? Where are you when white supremacists call us terrorists and put refugees in camps and deride immigrants? ➵ * Just so tired. * * * #christchurch #newzealand #terrorism #shooting #whitepeople #racism #colonialism #race #allies #allyship #feminism #feminist #intersectionalfeminism #intersectionality at WOMAD festival in New Zealand a day after a white supremacist carried out one of the most heinous acts of xenophobic islamaphobic Terrorism in the modern history of this country and world and a white woman with a store unapologetically calling itself "Hipstar" is selling rastafarian Sambo dolls. When i tell her so she tells "they" don't mean it " that way". Whiteness is so violently indifferent to its harms. It is committed to itself unto death. I am tired. So very tired.
 

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