'The movies always show women cutting their hair when all is lost but I wanted to know the feeling of making a change when things are gravy,' the actor said.
“When I was younger, I hated everything about [my hair]. I wanted it to be anything but what it was,” Union said. She later added, “I was inundated with images and messages saying, ‘You’re just not as pretty as so-and-so.’”
“The images that I saw on TV and in magazines and film reaffirmed what they were saying,” she continued. “That I wasn’t ‘it,’ and people who look like me aren’t ‘it.’ You couldn’t possibly have that ‘it factor’ and have hair like mine or skin like mine.”in spite of anti-Black societal messages“I marvel at my hair’s strength and all of the diversity of looks and styles that I can achieve,” she said. “I can literally transform into anything.
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