Book jacket image for Wash Day by Tomesha Faxio

Clarkson Potter

9780593579718

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Wash Day

With its exquisite photography and heartfelt profiles, Wash Day celebrates Black women’s natural hair.

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Review of ‘Wash Day’

Hair can instill empowerment and confidence. It can also cause stress and anxiety, especially when it doesn’t fit Eurocentric perceptions of beauty. Tomesha Faxio, a self-taught documentary photographer, sets out to debunk myths about Black women’s natural hair and celebrate the rituals surrounding its care in her loving photo-essay book Wash Day: Passing on the…

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