LOCS: One choice. One thing I know is 100% true about afro hair, is that we have a lot of choice when it comes to hairstyles. What I also know is true is that a person with afro-textured hair may choose a hairstyle, such as locs, because it helps naturally maintain the hair’s afro-texture as well […]
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Don’t Mind My Hair
“Don’t Mind My Hair” Would you cut your hair in order to get a job? In Afro Archives “A Performer’s World” I asked actors a very specific question “Would you shave off all your hair for a film?” THE ACTING WORLD vs THE REAL WORLD When I asked this question to actors, it got mixed […]
Free The Hair
Second week. Afro Archives on Air. We were all about “Free The Hair” Have a listen here Free The Hair was the topic of Afro Archives on Air, 9th March 2018. This second week I brought together women I met at World Afro Day on 15th September 2017. Namely Valley Fontaine and Professor Wendy […]
My Fro & Me: Hair Stories from Women of Colour
Hair Stories On 28th November 2017 “My Fro & Me” – Hair Stories from Women of Colour – was at The National Theatre, London, UK. We talked hair, culture, identity, Eurocentric ideals of beauty on our stage and screens, and discrimination. Endlessly Afro. “The prime responsibility of the theatre is to show a culture its […]