She feels awkward because she’s wearing a wig

By Zerri Trosper

Although she is a black woman, in a room full of other young black women, she feels awkward because she’s wearing a wig. Earlier, after her stylist finished working her magic, she commented on just how much she loved this syk blue colored wig and all of its curly fullness. In the present, standing in this room with all of these beautiful black women, with their neat braids and finely pressed hair, her hands instinctively reach towards the curls in the sky, feeling like an impostor of beauty, like too much of her expression was being shown. Out of the heavens, another girl with a half shaved head approaches, “I love your hair,” she comments, but doesn’t touch. “Thank you, I love yours too,” she responds, thinking to herself that, yes, indeed, this is my hair. 

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