Actress and activist Amandla Stenberg is Dazed’s latest cover star.

On the cover, Stenberg shows off her newly buzzed hair (cut for her upcoming role in Where Hands Touch) and her tough sense of style. In the interview, she talks about how hard it was to cut her hair and having to confront the role it played in representing who she is as a person.

Although she admits that:

“I feel like my belief in myself — my acceptance of myself, my ethnicity, my blackness, my everything — is there whether or not I have hair”

Check out a few shots from the Ben Toms-photographed shoot below and read more at DazedDigital.com.