[in]Visible Magazine

I never thought I’d have the courage to do it, but here I am, publicly describing the reservations I have about my own hair. See, I have what I like to call, “nappy hair.” This hair texture consists of fierce, comb-breaking, neck-snapping, mama-sweating, gut-wrenching naps that make a normal black woman absolutely dread waking up […]

Hair. Leg hair. Sophomore Laura Passarelli smiles as she rubs her fingers lightly over her shin. “It’s fuzzy,” she says, “but it feels natural.” Laura’s hair, which has grown four months without blade, wax, or cream applied to it, is hardly noticeable. As she sits on a couch in the Dorsey living room, she is […]

For the past couple of years I’ve been toying with the idea of shaving my head. I’m not really sure how the idea first made its way into my brain, but for a long time it was in the same category as skydiving—something I “had to do in life,” with the pending “someday” attached to […]