Trigger warning that this might raise your defenses so I’m going to offer a tool to get through it. It’s the same thing I suggest to people when learning about racial justice. 1) Read it like it’s not referring to you 2) Then, after you’ve read it, think about how it is referring to you. …

If you had asked Andrew the past 1.5+ years about what hair type I had, he would probably tell you, “Gross. She has gross hair type.” And while I would have classified it as “experimental hair type,” his answer would probably have been more accurate. But not anymore, folks! No, my hair is now soft, …