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July 27, 2009
Natural Women: Our Hair, Our Stories (Gine)
Background / I live in Virginia and I'm 48.
Hairstyle / I wear locs. I've been wearing locs for three or four years.
Reason for wearing a "natural" hairstyle / There were multiple reasons, including being sick and tired of sitting in shops, waiting for the relaxer to relax; paying for touch-ups every 4-6 weeks; scalp damage, etc.
Support for your natural look / My mother doesn't understand why I (and my older daughter) have chosen this style. Actua
July 23, 2009
Natural Women: Our Hair, Our Stories (Femi A.)
Hairstyle / I wore dredlocks for 30 years. I just cut them off one month ago, and now wear a short natural. I have worn natural hair since I was 20.Reason for wearing a "natural" hairstyle / I started wearing natural hair to challenge my own perceptions of what was pretty or ugly. I started wearing dredlocks to expand my interest in the vers
July 19, 2009
Natural Women: Our Hair, Our Stories (Kim F.)
Kim F.'s Story
Background / I'm an Ohioan, but I'm moving to Cario, Egypt to teach radio journalism at The American Univeristy in Cario. I'll be there for at least one year. I am a lover of hip hop music.
Hairstyle / I currently have locs. I started my locs in January 2000. They are not long as I trim them once or twice a year. I went natural about 2-3 months before I began to loc my hair.
Reason for wearing a "natural" hairstyle / At the time, I
July 17, 2009
Natural Women: Our Hair, Our Stories (A. Jalani)
Hairstyle /
Presently, my hair is in dreadlocks. I started wearing an Afro in high school in the mid-70s. I switched to dreadlocks after my marriage in 1992.
Reason for wearing a "natural" hairstyle /My high school years coincided with the latter part of the Black Arts/Black Power Movement. Though I did
July 15, 2009
Thursday Thirteen # 43 . . . 13 Quotes by Authors & Writers
The following are 13 of my favorite quotes by Authors & Writers.
1) If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." --Toni Morrison
2) Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae." — Kurt Vonnegut
3) Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." --Albert Einstein
4) Everywhere I go I'm a
July 13, 2009
Natural Women: Our Hair, Our Stories (Lori)
I'm a 40 some year old Black woman and like most in that particular demographic, I spent a large portion of my childhood wearing my hair like you see in the picture above--pressed and pig-tailed and on special occasions, pressed and curled.Age 13 (or thereabouts) marked my first experience with a chemical relaxer. Hate to point a finger, but it was my mother's idea (smile). She had the best of intentions and put me in the hands of a capable beautician. Even so, I remember both the burn o
July 9, 2009
Natural Women: Our Hair, Our Stories . . .An Intro
"In i...
An Intro
"In its natural state, as far as most people are concerned, Black women's hair is unpresentable."
Asali Solomon (from her essay "Black Fuzzy Thing" which appears in Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips and Other Parts)
Professor Aliesha Eaton, the protagonist in my novel, A Natural Woman, is a young Black woman whose natural hair is an integral part of the storyline. A number of different factors led me to write A Nat
July 1, 2009
Thursday Thirteen #42 . . . 13 Michael Jackson and J5 Mem...
1) Getting 3 J5 albums for Christmas
2) Stacking my J5 albums on a turntable and listening to them one after the other
3) Somebody screaming "The Jackson Five are on TV!" and everybody running inside so as not to miss another spin, turn or lyric
4) Arguing with my best friend over which one of us was gonna marry Michael Jackson
5) Watching the J5 cartoon on Saturday morning
6) Buying any books or teen magazines I see on the newstands
June 30, 2009
A Lil Bit of This & A Lil Bit of That . . .Well, if...
A Lil Bit of This & A Lil Bit of That . . .
Well, if you're interested, you can now check me out or befriend me on Facebook.
In anticipation of my upcoming release, A Natural Woman, my website has a brand New Look. As soon as I'm able, I'll post an excerpt.
In case you haven't already noticed, I've posted a new "Natural Hair" link category (move to the right-side of the blog and scroll down). In the coming days, I hope to add a number of other links, which deal with or cover topics associated wit
June 26, 2009
MICHAEL (The King of Pop) . . . I'll Miss You . . . Rest ...
Yes, even though I plead guilty to having poked fun at the one-glove-wonder and his family over the last several years, I've always had nothing but the highest respect for Michael Jackson's talents as an entertainer, singer and performer.
The first music I ever owned were vinyl albums cut by the Jackson Five, albums I still own to this day. My first school girl crushes were on MJ and his brothers, back when they sported the bi
