Back in the nineties, noughties, and even the 2010s, I talked about my hair like it was a burden. “It’s frizzy; coarse; hard to control; takes ages to straighten.” I was achingly jealous of friends with straight (or straightenable) hair who didn’t spend half a day washing theirs. This pain was exacerbated further by language […]
Author: Gemma Doswell
Is Monetising Trauma The Same As Healing?
Last weekend, a group of drunk, white men passed me on the quiet end of a road in Shoreditch. “Afro head,” one of them shouted as we passed each other. My first thought was fury. A disproportionate, unadulterated rage and an urge to jump at him, pulling his own hair from his scalp in a […]