Lockdown
We have our Hair in lockdown mode…
repressing it under weaves…perms…braids…Whew…but the kink still rules…
Broke Down Salon
Why can’t our hair salons be more like a calm oasis…instead of rundown, wall paint chipping, old chair seat-peeling, have to wait 2-and-a-half hours, staying all-day, babysitting asylums of confusion?
Back In the Day
Back In the Day…in the 1800s we used a fork to comb our hair.
The Kink
Hair & Politics
Do we even know our real hair texture…that is consistently camouflaged under weaves,
braids, wigs, perms, etc.? …See Malena Amusa’s
Blog on Hair & Racial Politics: http://gold-platedwitchonwheels.blogspot.com/2007/03/hair-and-racial-politics.html
Standards of Beauty
Rapunzel’s Daughter: What Women’s Hair Tell Us
About Women’s Lives
by Rose Weitz (courtesty of Amazon.com)
Ms. Weitz in her book explains that in the white community a slender woman is considered attractive regardless of her race or HAIR.
She goes on to say that in the Black community a woman with long, straight hair is considered attractive regardless of race or WEIGHT.
…SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
Bedtime Head Scarf
All the sisters know about the bedtime head scarf…
In Lonnice Brittenum Bonner’s book Good Hair….she says
in romantic moments when the brother wants to rub
his fingers through your hair — just let him…
Knowing all the while you’ve got the head scarf hidden under
the pillow…and when he falls off to sleep put that sucker
on your head!!!! (no holes or raggedness, please)
Confused
Hands down…Sisters are confused about our hair.
We simply don’t know what to do with it.
The problem: we are running away from our naturalness.
Many don’t even know what our real texture is.
We’ve got our kinkiness on the down low.
Our beautiful Kinkiness is Screaming
to get out!!!!!
It’s time — way over due — to let our hair out of the closet.
Human Hair
