How Black women are navigating alopecia.
hair
is not just hair. Along with the rest of our bodies, it is another site where society projects racialized notions of what’s beautiful and what isn’t. As individuals, it is also an intrinsic part of our identities and self-expression.
Over 20 years ago, Funmi Akingbe was diagnosed with alopecia areata, a condition that causes your hair to randomly fall out, first in patches but sometimes, completely. She sighs deeply as she describes the moment she first noticed her hair thinning. “My doctor wasn’t too sure what the cause was. He said it could’ve been stress, it could be hereditary, it could be that I was anaemic," she says “and he wasn’t sure whether it would grow back or not." Funmi tried to hold on to what was left by putting it in twists and then locs. But as the locs began to thin and apply even more pressure on the remaining tuft, she knew she had to shave her hair off.
Lots of black women wear wigs for a variety of reasons. While it’s easy to assume that this has to do with the internalisation of Eurocentric
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