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Manateez Design Clients My Shopify The Major Players Shirt What Donyelle did for me on that day—how she styled me—was so special. It set me on a pathway to healing. I felt peace. She restored something for me that I hadn’t felt up until that moment; she restored myself. But even after all that emotional labor and logistical labor to get that video done, I said to my team, “What if we release it and no one cares?” Imagine my complete surprise that it resonated with so many people around the Manateez Design Clients My Shopify The Major Players Shirt and I love this globe. I was not prepared at all. I had come to appreciate the power of representation as a Black woman with Senegalese twists, but I had not fully understood that I was also offering representation for those who have suffered traumatic hair loss. A dear friend of mine told me, “Your territory has been enlarged,” and at first, I didn’t understand what that meant. But there are seven million people living with alopecia. There are people who suffer traumatic hair loss because of other autoimmune diseases or because of cancer treatment or because it’s hereditary. One woman came up to me and said, “I suffer from female pattern baldness. Thank you for how you show up in the world every day. It means a lot to a lot of people.” The disability community embraced me immediately. Various advocates have shared their stories with me since the day that video hit. How many of them were DMing each other and tweeting at each other and texting, “Have you seen it? Have you seen it? Have you seen it?” I can look back now and say that it was a tremendous blessing.


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Official Manateez Design Clients My Shopify The Major Players Shirt Before losing my hair, I had never felt so secure about my aesthetic expression of my Blackness, of my womanhood. To be fully transparent, I haven’t gotten back to that place yet. I’m still very much on that journey. But I’m aware that how I show up in the Manateez Design Clients My Shopify The Major Players Shirt and I love this world is disruptive. How I present myself is intentional, and it’s political. It’s political because I’m a woman. It’s political because I’m a Black woman. It’s political because I’m a Black bald woman. I’m not seeking to make people uncomfortable, but I’m also okay with that in the aim of progress. How I present challenges conventional norms and standards for what is beautiful, for what is professional, for what is appropriate. What I seek to do at these specific inflection points in my advocacy or my life is to be unapologetic. To me, that means to be fully and authentically you, without pivoting or equivocating in order to make other people comfortable. Yes, I have hips and thighs along with these cheekbones and brown almond-shaped eyes. I have my father’s nose and this melanated alopecia crown. I’ve earned the right to show up authentically as myself, and I’ve been rewarded for it. If I were having struggles in advancing a policy agenda, in earning the trust of the electorate, perhaps I’d second-guess myself. But I’d like to think I wouldn’t. I’m 47 years old. I know who I am, and I stand in that firmly.


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How many of them were DMing each other and tweeting at each other and texting, “Have you seen it? Have you seen it? Have you seen it?” I can look back now and say that it was a tremendous blessing.

Before losing my hair, I had never felt so secure about my aesthetic expression of my Blackness, of my womanhood. To be fully transparent, I haven’t gotten back to that place yet. I’m still very much on that journey. But I’m aware that how I show up in the Manateez Design Clients My Shopify The Major Players Shirt and I love this world is disruptive. How I present myself is intentional, and it’s political. It’s political because I’m a woman. It’s political because I’m a Black woman. It’s political because I’m a Black bald woman. I’m not seeking to make people uncomfortable, but I’m also okay with that in the aim of progress. How I present challenges conventional norms and standards for what is beautiful, for what is professional, for what is appropriate. What I seek to do at these specific inflection points in my advocacy or my life is to be unapologetic. To me, that means to be fully and authentically you, without pivoting or equivocating in order to make other people comfortable. Yes, I have hips and thighs along with these cheekbones and brown almond-shaped eyes. I have my father’s nose and this melanated alopecia crown. I’ve earned the right to show up authentically as myself, and I’ve been rewarded for it. If I were having struggles in advancing a policy agenda, in earning the trust of the electorate, perhaps I’d second-guess myself. But I’d like to think I wouldn’t. I’m 47 years old. I know who I am, and I stand in that firmly. Buy this shirt: Click Here to buy this Manateez Design Clients My Shopify The Major Players Shirt


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