Quarantine Freed Me From a Lifelong Struggle With the Idea of ‘Bad Hair’

The pressure to tame, slick, or clip my ‘pelo malo’ into submission has been eliminated

Miguel Machado
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6 min readMay 20, 2020

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My hair has begun to spiral. Black wires sprout and shift from all angles, like shaded vines in search of the sun. It has been two months since my last haircut. As we all have experienced, the

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Miguel Machado
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