"I am mixed race, so I have a very particular hair texture that, initially, my mom didn’t really know how to deal with."

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“In certain projects, I’ve had to explain to someone who is not a person of color what my hair is and how it works, and what can and can’t be done to it.”

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“We're responsible for telling society where we are and where we should be going. Hair is a big portion of that in our representation.”