Clearly, I have confidence, alright? But I reach my limit of fierceness when, while relaxing in the comfort of my own home, my hair is twisting into itself until it’s knotted like a pile of tangled iPhone earphones. Do you want to know what happens when my hair looks jacked up like that? Dudes stop trying to tap this and my dating life dries up. And if my dating life dries up, my vajeen will get covered in vines and moss like Edie Bouvier Beale’s house in Grey Gardens. I can’t live my life like that and neither can the thousands upon thousands of other black women whose natural hair suffers
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