“I don’t straighten my hair because I hate it; I straighten it because everyone else hates it for me.”

This quote really stayed with me.

I don’t want to center myself in conversations when hair is deeply tied to race, culture, discrimination, and identity as that context matters, and my experience as a white woman is not the same.

But as someone with 2c–3b hair who grew up in the 2000s, I do relate to the feeling of being taught that my natural texture was “messy,” “frizzy,” “unprofessional,” or something that needed to be fixed. At the time I was not in the position to straighten my hair as I had a anti-cosmetic family where everyone else had pin straight hair. So i was just yelled at for not brushing my hair everyday (even though that made it frizzy and fluffy) and just kept my hair in braids all the time, and only in recent years have been trying to learn how to care for my hair properly.

I’m grateful for the curl-positive content that exists now as I’m still working through my own instinct to see my natural curls as messy instead of beautiful.

did everybody see the announcement that a new animated warriors series is being made?? my inner child with her warrior cats hyperfixation is screaming, crying, throwing up at this.

apparently the first season will be coming out in 2028 and going from this poster, it looks like the animation might be either 2D or a mix of 2D + 3D? early to judge but the art style being stylized like this gives me hope that it might actually be a good adaptation. even though it's releasing on disney plus, it's being developed by an outsourced animation studio so i'm very curious how violent/gory they'll be able to go. fingers crossed it doesn't get heavily censored or sanitized.