🗣 WE’RE MAKING A ZINE ABOUT HAIR! Looking for essays, articles, poetry, collages, historical pieces, illustrations and more from black women and femmes. Deadline is 25 July and all accepted submissions are paid £25. More info in bio!
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Wesley Dykes, Drag King —> I Am Not My Hair, India Arie
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I think hair is very important to my identity, on a surface level I have psoriasis on my scalp which was stress induced when my dad died when I was 21, so I’m always hyper aware of that. But also, I’m loc-ing my hair at the moment and it’s a process that requires me to be extremely patient. My hair is a physical reminder all the time to chill. .
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Wesley Dykes, Drag King —> I Am Not My Hair, India Arie
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“When that song came out, I was not in a good place with my queerness. I was mostly raised in Nigeria until secondary school and I was in a context where I wasn’t this enough, or that enough. I was intrigued by the song and the idea that so much of who I was as a person was defined by what I looked like on the outside, in relation to my gender or sexuality. I like that the song is about how the outer shell is so irrelevant to what you are inside.
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#blackhairstories #afrohair #photography #heritage #visualart #blackwomen #blackhair #melanin #walthamforest #blackgirlmagic #childhood #stories #blackart #drag #blackfemmes #dragking #indiaarie #iamnotmyhair #walthamstow
