Welcome to Truth's Table with Michelle Higgins, Christina Edmondson, and a Kimmy Uwahuan. Hey y'all, y'all,

welcome to Truth's Table with Michelle, Christina, and Akemini.

Okay, so let's be real.

Y'all know the Truth's Table promotional picture of the three of us looks like a natural hair ad, right?

So let's put our hair stories on the table today.

So what is your hair story? I know we could go on and on for hours about this but

Tell us your journey. Oh, wow. It's a lot right? It's a lot, right?

It is a lot.

I've had natural hair most of my life.

That's the way I think about it.

Most of my years on the planet, almost 40

have been a person who's had natural hair and I don't even I don't even

the term natural hair is just kind of weird to me like it's my hair that's right that's right so I've had hair for my whole life. But yes, but I guess really it's more about making the decision to not chemically straighten my hair is probably what we're talking about.

I mean I grew up with a mom who has naturally dute wavy black hair is what I saw as a kid.

And in many ways my mother for me

was and is the standard of beauty, not just African American women's beauty, but beauty in general.

And so I never thought that, whereas I know this might be odd, but I never really had a fixation on having straight hair.

I don't even I don't prefer myself with straight hair.

Every blue moon I will it will I will straighten it or in order to get a haircut.

I just I don't even know who that is. My husband is always like I don't know who that woman is.

So it's so it's at least for me in my little my little world a little bubble I know sociologically it has huge

implications for people I know for me and my little bubble yeah there's never been in a

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