Rocking braids or cornrows can be taboo for Black women. Stylists are fighting stigmas one style at a time
Black women hair stylists are challenge stigmas against braids, twists and cornrows. Getty Images With the rise of the digital age, Black women have witnessed a new generation of impressionable Black girls who have used cornrow and braiding styles as affirmations of their cultural identity.
A majority of African American women (80%) reported feeling pressured to change their hair for work.
Natural hair still regulated. The US Olympic Committee denied the use of swim caps for Afro hair.
Stylists told Insider they challenge stereotypes to celebrate the African roots of hair braiding.
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PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH R&B-soul musician Zahyia Rolle.
Within weeks of Rochester musician Zahyia releasing the music video for her new single “Foul SoulChild” this spring, it had hit almost 50,000 views. The slow-burning, catchy R&B song features stripped-down production a haunting keyboard riff, an addictive drum beat, and Zahyia’s voice echoing overtop, as if traveling from another world. Wearing shimmering, bandage lace-up, knee-high boots and a matching corset, Zahyia moves alone in a stark room, dimly lit by dark blue and red light. Then, suddenly, she stands before a mirror, electric hair clippers in hand, and shaves her head in real time.
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Sharing her experience of this endemic symptom of racism, Dr Adanna Steinacker explains how we can all spot them and, more importantly, stop them forever
I have experienced quite a number of racial microaggressions but on two occasions it really hit home. Once when I was at a salon getting a new hairdo, a young woman walked up to me and got quite close, invading my personal space without seeking permission. She asked, with a surprised look on her face, “Is this your real hair? Before I could form a sentence, she proceeded to feed her fingers into my afro hair without asking, I was gobsmacked. This incident stays with me always. The fact this woman thought it fine to touch any part of my body without consent was itself wrong, but most importantly the fact that my hair seemed so strange to her showed how di