You know what's real?…the jarring realization that White is no longer the standard of desirability; it is White-adjacent or racially ambiguous. And having curly hair is part of that standard.

We’ve grown up as baby heirs because White Supremacy raised us, and hair is a more potent indicator of race than skin color.

In other words, Kinky hair is the only thing exclusively indicative of African roots, and it can oftentimes afford a dark-skinned person with light-skinned privilege in many parts of the word.

In discovering the Orishas, I found that they never truly left us. We can find their fingerprints all over Black Femininity, specifically in the dances of HBCU Dance Teams and in the work of Beyoncé.