The policing of blackness begins at the root
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The thickness and texture of my black #hair was under constant scrutiny when I was a child. My aunt used to call me bossiekop (from the Afrikaans, meaning bushy head). The kids at school would use terms like Goema hare (candyfloss hair) and kroeskop (fuzzy head). My cousin would joke: “You can’t even put a […]
Angela Davis meets Zulaikha Patel, the student at the lead of the protests at Pretoria Girls High. Image credit Leila Dee Dougan.(...) the young black women who used their natural hair as a form of protest this month have clearly stated that they will no longer tolerate the racist frameworks, formal and informal, that teach them #self-hate.
L’afro, un cheveu sur la soupe
LAETITIA KOMBO, Le Journal En Couleur, le 19 septembre 2016
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#Femmes #Noires #Discriminations #Racisme #Intersectionnalité #Cheveux #Afro #Choix
