'The term, embedded in black and Latinx culture, is directed at curly, textured, and kinky hair. In two words, it sums up the belief that this hair type is so undesirable, so malo, that it has to be corrected.'
I had just started my second trimester when I shared a pregnancy factoid with my mother. “Mami, the babies are growing hair this week,” I said into the phone.I wish I could say she was kidding. Or that I reprimanded her. Instead, I laughed it off, even though I knew better than to acquiesce to the “bad hair” stigma.
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