Do you see women doing their hair in movies, tv shows or commercials? When perusing a protective hairstyle for a woman with textured hair it isn’t something that is done flawlessly like it is often represented. This conversation was sparked after seeing that luxury brands started to appropriate durags something with such a loaded history. Harriet Tubman wore a durag to protect her hair when out working in the fields and men wore it to “protect” their hairstyles that where made possible with toxic chemicals. Durags are a symbol of survival and labor something that has been continuously fetishized throughout the history of fashion.

    

   Throughout this short I play with gender and try to obscure it, which becomes impossible because in our culture woman learn certain skills that most of the time which helps us identify gender. When it comes to gender fluidity in brown/black communities it has been ostracized because colonizers embedded in our society to demonize these explorations. There is a lot of signifiers that still stay true when it comes to what certain genders are skilled in because we are constantly pushed into these stereotypes. In order to dismantle these stereotypes and lower the desire of other ways to care for our hair we must fill in representation of what it looks like to care for our hair, as well as others.