“I'm very early in my alopecia journey. But I'm making progress every day. And that's why I'm doing this today,” Rep. Pressley said. “It's about self-agency. It's about power. It's about acceptance.'
"I was very aware that this hairstyle could be, would be, filtered and interpreted by some as a political statement that was militant," she said."People said, 'People will think you're angry.' And I said, 'Well, they already think that.'"
Pressley said she first learned she had bald patches last fall while getting her hair retwisted. Not long after, she said she was waking up every morning to"sinks full of hair." Pressley told The Root she lost her final piece of hair at a pivotal time, both politically and personally: the night before the impeachment vote of President Donald Trump in the House of Representatives, which was also the anniversary of her mother’s death.
She said she was missing her mother and mourning the loss of her hair, the state of U.S. democracy and her mentor,She wore a custom wig to the vote and said she exited the floor as soon as she could and hid in a bathroom stall.Feeling as though she was participating in a cultural betrayal, she immediately knew that she would go public when she was ready.
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