May 22nd, 2012 
AT2W Staff 
“A Beautiful Disaster” Film Embraces Natural Hair Over Weave [Poem and Video]
“A Beautiful Disaster” Film Embraces Natural Hair Over Weave [Poem and Video]
Let’s take heed to this poem and short film on natural hair choices over weaved hair. We think this is inspirational and necessary information:
A short film and poem I wrote to highlight the struggles that many black women face when it comes to embracing our natural hair texture and the repercussions of living in a society that often places nappy and unattractive in the same category. For a lot of black women our natural hair texture has been something we’ve learned to disassociate ourselves with from childhood and therefore we lack self esteem and confidence when it comes to being beautiful naturally. I have also noticed that there are a lot of black women who are intolerant to seeing a black man with a woman of another race. I don’t think race should matter when it comes to a relationship, as long as it is based on love and not based on the societal pressure to look a certain way and therefore produce offsprings that fit into that stereotype of “beauty”. If black women continue to associate beauty with eliminating our natural hair texture and making our eyes and skin color lighter, we cannot then criticize a black man for preferring to date a woman who NATURALLY has straight silky hair, light eyes and light skin. We are only…
Read entire poem and see short film at Real Long Hair blog.
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