SOLANGE BARROS SAID: "I’m tired of hearing “Do you have good hair or bad hair?”".

We grow up with a conviction, reinforced by the rest of the world, that our hair is wrong, ugly, something that should be subjugated. Everybody should have straight hair – that’s what’s considered pretty, elegant, sensual, attractive, and good. And when you go outside these standards of beauty imposed by society, people judge you and very often look at you with a face that says “What is this?” My hair is very similar to, let’s say, that of Maria Bethania [popular Brazilian singer], not totally straight and not totally curly, a big mane, ha … and a lot of times I hear people ask: Do you have good hair or bad hair? But I always come back with another question, What is bad hair, I’d like to know? As if society thinks it has the right to impose on others what’s right and what’s wrong, what’s good or bad, pretty or ugly. My hair, independent of the way it is, is good, yes it is, and I don’t accept hearing the contrary.