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Calling Up: Responding to Can I Touch Your Hair

JUL 10, 2019 12:19 PM

A common microaggression committed by white and non-black people is asking to touch a Black woman’s hair or touching them without consent. Intent matters however impact matters

more. While in some cases the intention is to compliment the behavior is dehumanizing, exoticizing, objectifying, transgressing/violating boundaries, rude, presumptuous, and entitled.

This video includes a few ways you can respond if someone touches your hair without your consent or asks

Resource Document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/165qb_691MVrtK2kYGN4TdHS2jcjLYTIv/view?usp=sharing

Calling Up Can responding can I touch your hair.pdf

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