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Nappy love: Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the kinks
by Guest Contributor Tami, originally published on What Tami Said* My hair is nappy. It is coarse and thick. It grows in pencil-sized spirals and tiny crinkles. My hair grows out, not down. It springs...
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Nappily Ever After? Not Quite…
by Latoya Peterson *Warning: Strong Language* Regular readers might remember a piece I wrote a year or so ago, called Hair, Apparently. In the piece I wrote about an incident where I felt like someone...
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Assimilated Beauty
by Guest Contributor Lisa Leong, originally published on the AZN Television blog “That’s colonialism all over your face!” The quote is from one of my favorite Asian American Studies professors on...
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Hair’s To Freedom
by Guest Contributor Neesha Meminger, originally published at Neesha Meminger This weekend, I was interviewed for a magazine article. Nothing to do with my book, or even writing, for that matter. The...
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The Brazil Files: Race & the Runway – São Paulo Fashion Week Dabbles in Color
by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse models Joseph Ackon, Samira Carvalho and Ronaldo Martins for Osklen Yesterday afternoon, I was talking to one of my colleagues when I noticed one of the most...
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The Brazil Files: Bela* or Bust (Introduction)
by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse “So, are the girls hot?” This is the most common question I receive from American men when I explain that I have been living in Brazil. These men come from all...
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The Brazil Files: Bela or Bust Part 1 – On Gender
by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse Continued from “Bela or Bust (Introduction)” . . . Author’s note: I recognize that to say that the preoccupation with being beautiful for women in Brazil boils down...
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The Brazil Files: Bela or Bust Part 2 – On Class
by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse Continued from “Bela or Bust: Part 1: On Gender” . . . Author’s note: My apologies for the delay between part one and part two! I have recently moved back to the...
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Are curls the new straight hair? [The Germany Files]
by Carolina Asuquo-Brown Just a few weeks ago I was flipping through the pages of a fashion mag with a friend. An editorial featuring an obviously biracial black/white model sporting a huge curly ‘fro...
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Mattel Falls Short With S.I.S (So In Style) Line Black Barbies
by Guest Contributor Seattle Slim, originally published at Happy Nappy Head While checking out Bossip, I saw a link to an article at HipHopWired about Mattel’s new line of black Barbies, S.I.S or So...
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Die Already, King Kong Racism: Lady Gaga Edition
by Deputy Editor Thea Lim Why oh why does the King Kong image and its attendant suggestions of pure white goodness and evil black barbarism keep on rearing its ugly head? Sent to us by reader Ruth,...
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Fashionably Colonized: Hybrid Vigor, Brazilian Models, and Global Ideas of...
by Latoya Peterson Reader Nancy L sent in an article from the New York Times with an opening that made even this jaded activist do a double take: RESTINGA SÊCA, Brazil — Before setting out in a pink...
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Quoted: Former Roundtable Member Hexy on ‘The Diversity of Femme’
I have experienced a general ignorance about racial and Indigenous issue in queer and femme communities, and an expectation that anti-racist activism be considered secondary to feminist,...
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Suggestions For The Future: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition
by Fashion and Entertainment Editor Joseph Lamour Emily DiDonato in Namibia. Image via SI.com. I’m sure by now you’ve heard or you’ve read articles about the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition fail...
View Article“You will never be on this anchor desk, because you’re Chinese”
“So, I asked my news director … over the holidays if anchors want to take vacations, could I fill in? And he said, ‘You will never be on this anchor desk, because you’re Chinese.’ He said ‘Let’s face...
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Beauty = White: Photo Editing Software Edition
By Guest Contributor Lisa Wade, PhD; originally published at Sociological Images Here is something quite simple, sent along by Judy B. It’s a screenshot of Gimp, an open source image editing...
View ArticleWatch: Suey Park Discusses #NotYourAsianSidekick
By Arturo R. García Just about three months after leading a discussion on #POC4CulturalEnrichment, activist Suey Park hosted another critical Twitter talk on Sunday with #NotYourAsianSidekick. But this...
View ArticleElmo and Lupita Nyong’o Talk Beautiful Skin
Elmo has skin! A relatively obvious fact that still manages to blow my mind. But even more revolutionary is the rest of Elmo and Lupita Nyong’o’s conversation where she educate the eternal two year...
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Quoted: Is Sephora Targeting Certain Accounts For Cancellation?
If you’re a makeup junkie like me (and spent a ridiculous amount at Sephora last year to be eligible), then this notification for Sephora’s 20% off sale event had you squealing. Unfortunately, as many...
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