What Happens to
Brown Girls
Who Never Learn to
Love Themselves Brown
2021
Shenny De Los Angeles presents a show of radical honesty about the scars she inherited from a long line of powerful Caribbean women in pain.
‘What Happens to Brown Girls Who Never Learn to Love Themselves Brown’ is a live ritual performance that explores a Dominican-American femme’s journey to self love through her relationship with her mother and their hair. By breaking the generational curse of relaxing one’s hair, is it possible to forgive the women before you for what they didn’t know?
Written by Shenny De Los Angeles
Directed by Talia Oliveras
Lighting Design by Wyatt Moniz