Why, in 2022, is this still the case? Why have we not moved beyond that perennial racist emblem? And why are women so disproportionately affected? Each page gives the reader an insightful blend of powerful storytelling and prose with social and historical context, all making Trauma, Tresses, and Truth another crown in the literary discourse of Black women’s hair.” -Jeneé Darden, journalist and author of When a Purple Rose Bloomsīlack women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair.įrom grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair continues to confound, transfix, and enrage members of White American society. Through the experiences of amazing Black women writers, Trauma, Tresses, and Truth tells the complexities of Black hair culture with authenticity and heart. It’s beautiful like a fresh set of box braids, relaxer-burn painful, and somewhere in between. “The story of Black women’s relationship to our hair comes with many layers. This powerful collection is an important addition to minority studies and a necessary contribution to the process of Black women taking back their crowns." - Tara Lynn Masih, editor of award-winning The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays Raina León asks, 'what is freedom? is there a peek of it in this history?' Through a weaving of deeply honest, emotional stories, these survivors of cultural trauma provide an intellectual and emotional laying on of hands so that the next generation can heal and find their freedom. " Trauma, Tresses, and Truth is abundant with important messages, historical truths, and acts of everyday heroism and defiance in the face of the worst kind of racism, the kind that refuses to recognize itself.
Afiya Mbilishaka, founder and CEO of PsychoHairapy Trauma, Tresses, and Truth seeks to unseat and decolonize our natural hair stories, redirecting entire eras of grief into rediscovery, rebirth, and reclamation of our ability to choose our hair stories." - Dr. There is an urgent need for collective healing that invites Black and Brown women to tell their stories from the crown down. "Trauma, Tresses, and Truth offers vivid vignettes of individual and collective episodic memory.
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