Two Black Women wearing their hair naturally, are close friends, at work and talking to each other. They are happy and carefree in spite of all the racism and prejudice in the world. Pastel on paper, Artist Brian Ragsdale.

Why I wear my hair the way I do, naturally.

I grew up in a time when the Afro was a symbol of our fight for political and social freedom. Some of our parents did not want us to wear a large afro because of the message it might send. Defiance of a racist system that sought to enslave us. Our fore(caregivers)…(Note: I don’t like to use the words parents, all of the time, because of how this usage often represents a heterocentric worldview, and historically…