finding and pambana

thinking about my many privilieges and how i can be an oppressor…. mainstream natural hair movement- it is also a privilege within this white supremacist anti-Black system, for me to wear my hair in an afro and still have access to employment. in my case, my (lovingBlackness) natural hair wearing ability is also connected to my light brown skin, class, cisgender, educational, body-size privileges. the mainstream natural hair movement has a focus on length and curl looseness that is dangerously un-cautious of our ability as Black people to participate, in varying ways, to white supremacy and capitalism.