Posts Tagged as ‘Hair Politics’

June 24, 2008

Ms. Haireality Sends her Apology… AND I Duly Accept

APOLOGY:
Hi
I shouldn’t have shot off at the mouth.
I am a 57 year old black woman born with thin, mostly unmanagable hair, which, of course, my grandmother straightened to death. At the age of 17, in college, I started wearing a fro, which I wore from 1968 to 1984, long after it stopped being a statement. [...]

June 20, 2008

Janet Jackson, Cartier, & Weave, Weave, Weave!

Why must black women continue to perpetuate and promote the shaving of harmless animals so that they can have long flowing Europeanesque hair?…Janet Jackson was spotted and photographed at the recent Cartier bracelet benefit looking like she killed ten horses to make that hideous weave she had sitting on top of her head. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY????????? My heart weeps :(