• Where Do I Fit In? Being Multiracial with Multi-textured Hair

    2 years ago - By Coveteur

    The road to embracing my natural hair was not the perfectly smooth ride to self-love I had anticipated. I'd been watching women rediscover their natural texture for years, and while the journey looked empowering and magical, no one told me that confronting the belief systems surrounding love, identity, and acceptance is also incredibly difficult.
    When I stopped chemically straightening it, I liberated parts of myself I, until that moment, didn't know were suppressed. I had moments that felt hilarious-like the first time I tried a bonnet dryer , or what my boyfriend now refers to as the...
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