Tag Archives: hair
From the Archives: “My Hair Trauma” (1998)
We received a request for a piece I wrote over ten years ago, from my time in the “olden days” of what we oldsters once called “web journaling.” It’s hard to read some of my old writing without cringing (as … Continue reading
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Life-Saving Fashion
Yesterday, we posted on Alyce Santoro’s repurposed audio cassette tape ties which are constituted at the intersection of the sartorial and the sonic (as well as the visual and the aural). Today, we learned (from the FIT Facebook feed!) about … Continue reading
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LINKAGE: The Color of Beauty
Naomi Campbell rightly argues that the all-black Italian Vogue was an inadequate gesture: “That made some noise but, unfortunately, we are the same as before. People, in the panic of recession, don’t dare to put a girl of color in … Continue reading
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FILM/TEACHING: Good Hair (and a Lesson Plan)
In my fashion course I inevitably assign Kobena Mercer’s “Black Hair/Style Politics,” sometimes with selections from Lisa Jones’s Bulletproof Diva and Ayana Boyd and Lori Tharps’s Hair Story, sometimes with Angela Davis’s “Afro-Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia,” in which Davis … Continue reading
Filed under FASHIONING RACE, IN THE CLASSROOM, ON BEAUTY
