The My Edges series is a culmination of over 70 pictures, each accompanied by poems and short stories of my hairstory evolution amidst oppression. Chapters include care practices and inspirations that sustained me through that chapter of life and ends with a reflective engagement question for readers to reflect upon their own hairstory while reading mine.

The My Edges, My Life and Our HairStories: Tails from Our Edges projects are motivated by my hair journey as a Black woman surviving oppression. My hair is the most vulnerable space of my physical body – it’s the part of my body that I’ve had the most shame around given the white supremacist beauty standards and the long-lasting repercussions of trying to acclimate to them.

The project is a double sided book, one side featuring “My Edges, My Life” and the other side featuring “Our HairStories: Tails From Our Edges”. It is through my art based healing journey that I realized this isn’t just about me. We all have a hairstory that impacts our access to humanity as external commentary of our hair becomes internal commentary about ourselves.

Culminating in a book tour centering community building via intimate conversations about one another’s hairstory, the Edges project shows us maturing and loving ourselves through oppressive ways of knowing and being.