I like to write about feminism, criticism, narrative, the long cultural history of gender and race, and popular culture, ideally all at once. I’m very interested in critical hair studies and want to read anything you have written on this important topic.
My book Tangled: Seven Iconic Moments in White Women’s Hair and What They Tell Us About Power, Pleasure, and Complicity will be released August 25, 2026.
An archive of my writing at the Los Angeles Review of Books can be found here.
An archive of my writing at Avidly can be found here.
Other criticism has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Guernica, ASAP/J, and elsewhere.
Sarah Mesle 