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In the photograph, bright rays of sun shine down on me like a spotlight2, and the hot dogI’m holding has a big, happy bite taken out of it. My hair is a range of gold highlights, rawsienna, wheat blond, and sweet lemon, lit by the sun. Soft, thick waves of it are blowing inlayers away from my face as a few ringlets sweep up off my shoulders. There is atenderness in my gaze, cut slightly with seriousness at the edges of my eyes.
This photo is one of my favorites from my childhood. In it, I look like a typical firstgrader on summer break. I look like I belong to somebody who knows how to look afterme. I appear well cared for. But I wasn’t.
My childhood was rife4 with neglect. There were many things about me that my motherdidn’t understand how to nurture5 or maintain—but the most obvious, most symbolic6, andmost visible was my hair.
My hair was rooted to no one. No one did my hair. No one knew how. We didn’t haveconditioner (or “cream rinse,” as it was called back in the day) at my mother’s house.
There were no pomades, wide-toothed combs, or hard-bristled brushes. There was noSunday ritual of getting my hair washed and braided; certainly, there was no greasing ofthe scalp. There was no order made in my hair. I never felt the tidiness or security ofhaving my hair done.
As a result, my hair was often a matted, tangled1 mess. And no one around me couldfully understand the particular humiliation8 of being a nonwhite little girl with unkempthair. I didn’t have the language for it, but I carried the burden of how it felt. My neglectedhair was a siren, signaling that I was different from all the little white girls—and fromlittle Black girls too. My wild, mixed, and mangled9 curls made me feel inferior, unworthyof receiving proper attention.
There was no going to the salon
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accentuate
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lotion
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