Auntie's salon was its own culture that we've gentrified
The price increase in hair braiding services is something we all recognise. While this is understandable due to economic shifts and people simply recognising the value of their work, we tend to solely focus on the pricing of aunty-run salons as their benefits, forgetting their wider cultural impacts, such as the small ways they can keep us connected to our roots as members of the diaspora.