They talked about my hair being like one of a dog, literally. There was another magazine that composed celebrity-look-alikes, and they used a dog for me. There was a fashion editor of a major magazine who was white and for Halloween she wore an afro wig and had black face and called herself Solange. I think I've been on so many fashion shoots and anything in regards to fashion, which is still a predominantly white industry, and also feeling the void of tokenism through my hair being an afro and what that meant to the fashion world. I feel like when I cut my hair and I decided to wear my hair natural, I didn't feel any more pro-Black or like I identified any more or less in my walk as a Black woman. It's almost my India.Arie "I Am Not My Hair" moment. I think that one of the things that I'm also trying to communicate through that song is the way that people see us through our hair. Obviously, my relationship with hair, being that I grew up literally in a hair salon, is very deep and very complex. I believe that hair is incredibly spiritual, and, energetically, it really encompasses and expresses who we are. Tina Lawson and the journalist Judnick Maynard published on her website, Knowles continues:
"You know this hair is my shit, rode the ride/I gave it time/But this here is mine." Later in a conversation with her mother Mrs. "They don't understand what it means to me/Where we chose to go," she sings. Then earlier this week, Solange dropped her achingly beautiful fourth studio album (four years in the making), A Seat at the Table, featuring "Don't Touch My Hair," a nicely timed corrective.
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