Never Cutting Your Hair in an Emotional Time is a Colonized Mindset.

Bree Yoo Sun Jeong, 정유선
4 min readFeb 23, 2023

I just learned this and I realize again just how colonized I have been over the years.

Korean Essentials

Never cut your hair in an emotional time.

This was a staple in our home. It was right up there, under the Ten Commandments. Not the murder ones and stuff, but you know. The other…

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Bree Yoo Sun Jeong, 정유선

I was formerly the young mother who leaned into destiny. These days I'm young-ish. I write about race, motherhood, transracial adoption, and hood feminism.