“Mrs. Obama gracefully handles taking up more space, and it goes beyond hair,” explained Mock. “It’s her height, her curves, her eyes, her voice. I just wanted more of her, and that hair was giving me more of her, and symbolically more of all of us — ‘us’ meaning brown girls who feel there isn’t enough space for us.”

NOTE: I discuss First Lady Michelle Obama’s photoshopped fro with Patrice Yursik of Afrobella and Image Activist Michaela Angela Davis in a The Root piece written by author Helena Andrews.

On Sunday, March 25th, I’ll be joining MAD Free with Michaela angela Davis for a Modern Women’s History Month conversation in Harlem at 1pm. Please join us - it’s FREE! - as we discuss image, acceptance, self-definition and a bit of hair too.

Here’s the event’s details:

*MAD Free* with *Janet Mock*

Is proudly a part of *Sundae Sermon * 

Sunday, March 25, 2012  @ 1pm 

El Mueso del Barrio 

1230 5th Ave. @ 105th St. 

Free to the Public.