My Hairstory
The Weave Chronicles: Haiti, Brazil & the Economy
I wear a weave proudly. I'm not ashamed by the term, the process or the purchase. When it comes to ...
Hairstory: In Search of Joan (or, my very first full weave)
Conventional wisdom has come a long way when it comes to weaves. As Marvet Britto recalled in ...
Worst I've Ever Had
Maybe it was in the Eighties, when random streaks of color and asymmetrical cuts were the height of ...
Hairstory: A Loc Rocker's Fairy Tale
Once upon a time there was a little Black girl. Little Black girl was an energetic something whose ...
Hairstory: My First Perm, My Last Perm
The Naïve Years. Left to right, me in second and third grades. Those two cornrows were ...
TWA: The Only Way to Fly
At age 4, I ran away screaming any time my mother approached me with a comb. Thirty years later, ...
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