This piece is about hair triggers. Being the only person in my family/household to have curls I am just now still learning to style them, live with them and not freak out about my curls. This 10 minute spoken word piece will be talking about the act of finding hair in all parts of the curves of my body. Elbow, back of knee, butt cheeks, they are everywhere and with my history of tuberculosis and lung damage, everytime I see a 3 foot hair strand, it triggers me and scares me.

The piece will encompass the stigma of my curls, the trauma of them falling and losing my hair when I did, and the self love / hatred they encompass and how being in this country is the first time my curls feel normal, yet the cost of it is massive.