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Beauty & The Hairy Truth
Like many black women, the road to my current, beloved short and natural do was paved by ironing combs, lye, rollers, finger waves, and braid extensions. Arriving at this satisfied place with my hair wasn’t particularly difficult (I’ve always loved the texture of my natural kinks and burning the skin off my scalp began to [...]
Read moreTelling My Stories
In the last few weeks I have been exploring ways to keep writing every day. In addition to the notorious “free write” (taking 15 minutes to just write without stopping), and polishing half-written short stories that I’d set aside ages ago, I have taken to writing microfiction via my new twitter account: @scetches. Although many [...]
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