The Story I Went Looking for Was Not the Story I Found
I set out to write about the pink tax. The number everyone repeats did not hold up, and the cost that did have evidence behind it was not the one at the register.
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The Editor’s Notes
Why a question was worth chasing, what got cut because it could not be stood up, and corrections when they are needed.
The Conversation Was Moved—and Black Women Were Asked to Carry It
The strongest research on natural-hair bias was about hiring, not attraction. Somewhere between the study and the conversation, the setting changed—and the accountability went with it.
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Why Natural Girlies Had to Exist
We had tutorials, reviews, routines, and more opinions than any one wash day could hold. What we did not have was enough space to ask why.
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