It’s been nearly five years since I wrote White Women Don’t Belong In Natural Hair Spaces. This post, unsurprisingly, received a lot of comments, many from white women tearfully sharing their own battles with their hair and telling me I’m racist for not wanting them in black hair care spaces. Over the years, the comments […]
The title of this post sums up what I’m going to write about here. Twitter is abuzz about a post on Curly Nikki, featuring a Q&A with a white woman named Sarah talking about how she has learned to embrace her curls. This seemingly innocuous post features this woman musing about how she’s learned to accept her […]
Another celebrity is now in hot water for making blatantly offensive and repugnant remarks about marginalized groups of people. This time, it’s Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson, who was quoted by GQ Magazine as saying some really, REALLY homophobic, transphobic and Bible-thumbing propaganda. Lost in Robertson’s remarks are his comments about black folks before the […]
Part of me knows this will happen each year: a white person will decide to be edgy, exercise his or her’s First Amendment right and dress up as a person of color for Halloween. It’s a fact: white people have been taught that the bodies/experiences of POCs and other marginalized groups are up for the […]
The New York Times recently decided to take whiteness on a virtual trip to the exotic. In two pieces in the last week or so, the newspaper has published one op-ed and one article on black natural hair, specifically the complicated, peculiar Afro! The article explores how people are now starting to view black people […]