In detangling intergenerational trauma, Black Cotton softens the damage caused by internalised oppression and exposes the shame of normative whiteness. In its styled linguistic verve, it takes the reader by the short and curlies, with an unflinching and uncompromising effort to illuminate and critique how we mistreat each other and ourselves. Dangerously vulnerable like wisps of afro-textured hair, these poems shed strands of truth for any diligent reader who combs these unruly pages.