The natural hair movement is for Black people, whose natural hair (Afros, dreadlocks, twists, braids, etc.) is not widely accepted by society. You know whose “natural” hair is accepted? The Eurocentric (white) standard: straight!
I don’t give a fuck if you happen to have curly hair. If you are…
Umm no. “Natural hair” is just that…natural hair. African-American women rejecting perms in droves today is definitely a movement, but the use of the term “natural hair” is not unique to Black women.
Yes, the white Eurocentric standard for hair is straight hair…which is why it’s important for anyone and everyone to reject this as the ideal look for women. If a white woman with curly hair decides to stop straightening her hair, then that curly hair is her “natural hair.”
It’s one thing to say that white women should stop appropriating specific hairstyles, or culturally specific terms like “locs,” but a phrase referring to one’s hair in its natural state? Naw…
