Hey ladies,
For months I have admired the lovely hair of my workmates who have extensions. Seems like they are getting better and more realistic looking every day! Though I envy the luscious long locks, I can't get past the fact that the hair industry seems to yet another exploit for women of the global south in benefit for those of us living in the global north.
This article, among many others, outline some of the conditions which lead to women selling their hair.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...-trade-secrets
I don't think I can ethically justify wearing a poor women's hair, so that I can make more money and feel better about how I look.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Does anyone have any resources about hair that comes from women who are more fairly compensated or perhaps synthetic hair that is of really high quality?
I don't mean this to come off as judgmental because I realize that in my day to day life I benefit from the labour of a lot of exploited workers from around the world or from industries that are really destructive to the environment but there seems to be something really personal about literally wearing this product of exploitation on my head.



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) They're not a capitalist country, but they have plenty of problems with exploitation of the poor.

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