Why, I got schooled on the white supremacy of the question, of course.
— Stephanie Winn, intergenerational translator (@sometherapist) July 9, 2022
The question, obviously heavily influenced by, well, my own hair type, showed a lack of regard & understanding for different ethnicities’ hair styling needs.
By asking if it was unprofessional to come to a session with wet hair, I was flaunting the white privilege inherent in having long, straight hair that can dry naturally in a couple hours or be blow-dried in 15 minutes.
— Stephanie Winn, intergenerational translator (@sometherapist) July 9, 2022
The more we are lectured that race is just a social construct with no scientific reality, the more we are also supposed to be intimately aware of all the details of racial differences in hair biology between women of sub-Saharan ancestry and women from Out-of-Africa ancestry in order to avoid causing offense.
