The Hair Revolution

Authors

  • Stephanie Awotwi-Pratt

Keywords:

Hair, Revolution, Black Lives Matter Movement, Protest, Natural Hair

Abstract

This piece is a reflection on the protests and events of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. I resisted institutional and societal racism by celebrating my natural hair. I am closing the gap between my sense of self and the pressures and oppressive systems of institutional and systemic racism that affect how I position myself in the world.

Author Biography

Stephanie Awotwi-Pratt

 

Stephanie Awotwi-Pratt (She/Her/Hers) is a Gender and Women’s Studies student at UBC Okanagan with an interest in African and Black female experiences of oppression, racialization, and sexism. Stephanie is passionate about justice, medical inequalities and the pathologization of marginalized groups. She enjoys writing and reading poetry, playing the piano and volunteering in her local community.

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Published

2021-03-04

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): World-Building

Section

Creative

License

Copyright (c) 2021 Stephanie Awotwi-Pratt

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.