For many Black women, Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sisterlocks are revolutionary. “To walk with such poise, such grace, with sisterlocks. … She didn’t let the stereotypes of what locking your hair meant prevent her from being her best self.”
Hope Goins, 42, majority staff director for the House Committee on Homeland Security, has worn her hair in short natural coils for six years. “Sometimes people are unprofessional with me. They want to touch my hair and they want to tell me it’s cool or something, or pay more attention to my hair than what I have to say,” she said.Usually they know better than to actually touch it, she says. But sometimes they point or come close. “How did it get that way?” they ask.
At an after-hours work event recently, a colleague greeted her by saying: “There’s Hope with the cool hair.” Was it an innocuous compliment? Or were they reacting to seeing something foreign? She would rather talk about homeland security policy, Goins says, and not have to worry how she is perceived.
Maude Okrah, 34, felt pressure to wear her hair straight while working as a marketing executive at a large energy company. “Wearing it in a Eurocentric way is a way to look the part of a professional,” she says.She sometimes reverts to a protective style like braids, but she gets the most positive feedback when her hair is straight. Colleagues say “I like your hair straight.
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