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Politics, Policy, & Social Media: How Natural Hair Has Influenced A Generation Refinery29 2/23/2021 aimee simeon
“Hi guys, welcome to my channel,” played like a broken record in my head throughout my college days, during which I was consumed with the growing natural hair community on YouTube.
“Today I’m gonna show you how I achieved this twist out on transitioning hair,” were usually the words that followed during the hour-long style sessions I would have in my bedroom.
I started getting perms at age nine. It’s hard to forget sitting in the bathtub in my childhood Brooklyn apartment, watching neutralizing shampoo go from yellow to pink when the formula was all rinsed out. Or, rummaging through my scalp to pick at the scabs from the burns I’d get from scratching before my perm. As an adolescent child, straight hair was all that I knew. Relaxing my head of curls provided an easier solution for my mom who didn’t have time to detangle and style m