✨Ms Chief✨
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✨Ms Chief✨
@trinkleworth
tweets: tennis, afrobeats. serious when it matters. agnostic about your gods. ambivalent about your feelings.
The reactions to Coco Gauff’s natural hair in her Miu Miu campaign are deeply telling. She looks beautiful, and what’s actually being exposed is people’s discomfort with natural hair in its most authentic form.
This is how thick curly hair looks in a ponytail. It is impossible for her hair to be bunched together and "lay flat" on her head. Coco's hair doesn't need more tension, pulling or styling. Her hair isn't able to look like right and that's not a flaw. It's just a difference.
In one weekend they used an important woman in black history to insult Coco Gauff for wearing the hair that grows out of her own hair. They also saw a black woman who loved her moisturised and good looking feet the way they were and projected their self hatred on her…
They got Coco looking like Ruby Bridges
How did Dutch become Afrikaans when American English is still English and Quebec French is still French?
