WILLOW MINI SKIRT WARRIOR interview

    par Patel Aminata: Flowerovlove

    Flowerovlove sat down with WILLOW at the album release Q&A for MINI SKIRT WARRIOR to discuss why wearing her natural hair matters.

    Transcription (en)

    What does representation look and or feel like to you? I feel like you kind of touched on that with just like the visual metaphors inside of, you know, your music videos and everything. But like, like I said before, being a woman of color, you know, you're wearing your natural hair, you know, and really just like showing up as exactly who you are in a space that has historically told us that that's not okay and historically been like nah this isn't what's hot this isn't what's cool but you are hot and you are cool which is unbelievable okay so what what does that feel like or look like to you for me it's very much so knowing why i'm doing something like i always have a why it's like okay, I like this color, why? How does it make me feel? And how's it gonna make someone else feel? But the main thing about my hair is like, I just had to see it. It was like, I wish I saw it. So shit, it gotta be me then. It's gotta be me. And I really, really do wish I saw it because I aspire to be the person that I wanted to grow up seeing. So every time I see someone, I'm like, would little Joyce be so obsessed with this if she's not doing it? And that's why I kind of have dull vibes, you know? That's why I'm like, I'm preppy, I always have this whole thing going on. But it's also just so within me, I love to touch into my inner child all the time. Like, I have touched it over the last 24 hours. Exactly. We have to be touching it, we have to be touching your eyes, because we forget to do it. We're just so consumed by our lives. Doesn't matter how old you are, like, do the things you used to love to do to remember who you are. I love that you talk about the inner child because in my own experience tapping in