Gracies Hair - Do Black Women Have A Social Responsibility To Explain Natural Hair In the Workplace?

Most of us watched the video recently circulating on social media of a young lady Gracie looking stunning at work with her beautiful natural afro hair. In the video we saw her white colleagues touching prodding ummming and arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring fascinated about her natural hair admitting they had never seen natural hair on a black woman before. What was more uncomfortable is Gracies facial expressions. It was undeniable that she looked uncomfortable. So many questions. Did they ask permission before touching her hair? If so did she say yes? If she said yes did she feel under pressure to say yes? 

The video went viral. Watching this video several times and reading the reactions of fellow black women it caused me to step back and unpack my hair choices when going to work, including how I wear my hair to interviews etc. In this Episode I share with you my hair choices for work and why. I will also be sharing my views on the Gracie video and answer the question 'Do Black Women Have A Social Responsibility To Explain Natural Hair In the Workplace?;