Janina Edwards Wrote An Essay Reflecting on Caring For Her Mother
For The Ethel, Janina Edwards wrote an essay about what she learned from taking care of her mother, and Black haircare. Edwards told Study Hall that the essay reflects on “the challenge of taking care of my mother while she had Alzheimer’s Disease, and how I balanced the responsibility of care with honoring the person she used to be.”
In the piece, she writes: “As my mother and I navigate her dementia, it’s clear we’re in this thing together. In one of my favorite photos of us, we are at brunch. It’s 2014. My mom is not at her prime but still put together, hair dyed and permed, fluffy. Then there’s me wearing the dreadlocks I have cultivated since 1987. We smile big. We are different and the same.”
Edwards’s work has appeared in Nevertheless and She Persisted.
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