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Is Hair Only Hair?
Certainly not for a black girl! For, you see, hair has been made into the fluff upon which her dignity rests. As I stand in front of the mirror gauging the state of the bushy roots pulling my braids...
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Raising a Princess
A few months ago I travelled by train with my daughter from Copenhagen to Thy, in the North West of the Danish peninsula. 5 hours. Being 4 months pregnant, my brain wasn’t working at optimal levels. I...
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À Procura do Puro Corte
Ok. O novo corte de cabelo. Eu mencionei há um ou dois posts atrás que tenho um novo corte de cabelo e que não estou de todo satisfeita com ele. Nunca gostei de cabelo curto (pelo menos au naturel)...
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I Joined a Movement
I joined a movement – inadvertently – when I chose to keep my hair natural. I didn’t know other people struggled with the same issue. I thought I was alone in my indecision. In not liking my hair...
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Book Update III
As part of the research for my book, I read Nella Larsen’s novel Quicksand. She was a Harlem Renaissance writer with links to Denmark. I wanted to read it because it is another account of a black...
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Yes, You May Touch My Hair
Like so many black women in the natural hair movement, I used to hate the can I touch your hair? request. It irked me to no end. I don’t remember ever saying no, but I remember sizzling up inside. I...
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No, You Can’t Touch My Hair!
Writing yesterday’s post made me think of an old piece I wrote way back in 2010. I wrote it in the middle of the night as an opening to my novel but ended up not using it. It kind of has the feel of a...
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Origins of the Afro Comb Exhibition
Last weekend I Managed to catch the exhibition Origins of the Afro comb at the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge on its last day. I had found out about it a couple of weeks back but had been unable to go...
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