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By Akilah Sailers ·Updated September 24, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Lately, more and more Black femmes with alopecia have been empowered to embrace their bald heads as a public aesthetic. Since alopecia is a socially disabling condition, being naturally bald in public can feel like a radical statement. Granted, as a bald girl myself, there are days when I don’t want to feel like a “radical statement.” It
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