'Being both Black and fat, there was an unspoken narrative that desirability resides in pursuing traditional beauty norms...' Marie Ospina shares.
As I watched my hair fall to the gray tiles in frizzy, scattered piles, I felt a sudden wave of panic. The stylist took scissors, then clippers, to the long strands that once fell down my lower back, cutting everything off to ear level — and I knew she wasn’t finished. I had requested shaved sides with only a tuft of curls at the top of my head. As a fat woman, I had never allowed myself to cut my hair this short.
My new cut certainly didn’t feel comfortable, though. At least not initially. The second I felt the clippers hit my scalp, I began questioning what femininity actually means to me, and if it even matters. I asked myself whether I really am happy to take up space, or whether I am only happy to do so when I feel like I’m compensating for my fatness in other ways.
Many fat women and femmes experience this pressure, particularly if they exist at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities."I felt plenty of unspoken pressure to keep my hair long," says plus-size model and writer
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