Why I’m Getting My Hair Wet This Summer
As a Black girl, I was told I couldn’t swim. That was a lie.
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6 min readAug 9, 2021
We’re in the last stages of summer, and I want nothing more than to submerge myself in a body of water. I want to swim laps in a pool. I want to feel ocean waves pass over me.
And I do not care about my hair getting wet.
