00:00I went to school for dance. I was a dancer my whole life and so I went to a dance school where
00:16downstairs we had a salon and as soon as I finished the rehearsal I came down and I said
00:24to the lady please chop my head off like all of it everything my hair needs to go and she was like
00:30okay and she literally like done after that I left my hair grow like growing naturally and at the time
00:41no one really had that you know like that was the whole thing about it my mom thought I was crazy
00:48like she came to me and she was like what have you done you got to go to the psychologist you like
00:55maybe I'm doing something wrong raising you the way I raise you so it became this big deal in it
01:02and I was just trying to tell her that I wasn't feeling like myself when I was a kid my hair was
01:12very curly and they don't look at that in a good way in certainly I think our culture make we believe
01:20that curly hair is not beautiful so I remember when I was like eight years old and my aunt looked at me
01:29and said well it's time to dominate your hair your mane we have to fix that it's too long but after
01:38that I just don't remember how was my hair natural so now I've been trying to do the transition of hair
01:46to be back for natural but it's not easy and sometimes I go to the court I just wash my hair
01:53and go and the clients look at me like hey are you sure you had a good night you're fine you're not sick
02:01why because your hair is weird I said well I just wash my hair and came here
02:13I was two times when I had a long hair, when I had a chemically treated chemically, people
02:21said ok you are Brazilian, mulata, with the skin, ok a mulata Brazilian.
02:28When I was like that I had a hair like that people would ask me like
02:33Brazilian, ah no they call me a lot of American they asked me if I was from America but Brazilian
02:43no, now I think it changed for a while now I have a natural hair hair, now I think there are
02:48more natural hair women.
02:50There are always comments like my uncles want to come and smell my hair and find if there's something in there
02:56the other day like literally this weekend I got home and I'm like what is
03:02this and there was like a thing in my hair that someone threw at it like a
03:06piece of paper like you know like playing kind of like I don't know I was
03:12upset I was like geez there's still people that actually do this like they
03:16don't really respect me but then I get over it because I'm like well they will
03:22learn you know with all of this movement happening they will have to learn
03:27I look like Mickey Mouse
03:31I really feel like a horse in a hoodie, another on Disney
03:37don't ask me, put your hands every day when I go out at night I have to
03:42disembarrass my hair because everyone puts your hands it's a man, a woman, a child, a
03:48male, a girl, a man I feel like my body is invaded, I feel very invaded
03:57I have a niece that's one year old and I want her to look at me and my sister and say
04:03yeah I think you both have nice hair because my sister now is curly she changed
04:09because I encourage her and I want her to decide you know she can straighten me five
04:16she can be curly and be fine just she has to feel proud of herself and feel
04:22free to do her choices this is what I'm fighting for
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