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This Is a Love Letter to Edges
We asked image activist Michaela angela Davis to write a piece inspired by all that edges have done for Black women past, present, and future. By Michaela angela Davis Jun 9, 2021
Black hair is rain forest, lush and ancient like El Yunque¹. It’s an endless field of fluffy cotton blossoms nestled in prickly claws, rising out of wet, dark-red Georgia dirt. It’s the deep Mediterranean Sea with secret wild gardens growing up from the murky Egyptian floor. And like the Ogun² and Combahee³ Rivers, it is powerful and mysterious and can hold a hundred generations’ worth of secrets. And at its shorelines the ones that frame beautiful Black, brown, and beige faces