I think we don't talk enough about how the whole don't touch my hair thing is in large part about not allowing yourself to be exoticized.
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"Can I touch your hair" is an offensive question not bc asking to touch ppl is offensive but bc of how it asserts my otherness.
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It reinforces that this black face in this white place is unusual, an oddity, a curiosity, a guest. Not a co-heir to what we too created.