My Hair Goes Up: Poems, essays, and ideas regarding passage of the CROWN act

My Hair Goes Up uses essays and poetics to examine the California *CROWN Act (SB 188), a law written to create a respectful and open workplace and world for natural hair. This book is a poetic tribute to the lofty, helical, gravity-defying hair that deserves to exist freely. It shares a heartening perspective on the norms surrounding the legacy of contrived social divisions. My Hair Goes Up, poetically deconstructs problematic human divisions and finds solutions that will create an equal ex...