I just read an article about "activist cartographers". How cool would it be to have that on a business card?
Have you ever been with a warrior woman?
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - Jul 17, 2013 4:45:37 am PDT #29419 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
§ ita § - Jul 17, 2013 4:50:34 am PDT #29420 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
See, if there's no knee jerk "OMG, you should have had your hair like this all along..." I'm not even that curious. Testing theories is an interesting concept--digitally. I've had short dreads. They were--enh. As far as flattering goes, the short blonde I think looked the best on me, and then nothing else is going to look enough better on me to make sizable moves away from stubble/bald.
For afro puffs my sister will need shoulder length hair. That's how we used to wear ours up through age 14 or so. That was also epically boring for me, and I didn't even have to do the heavy lifting. Sometimes there was a whole Angela Davis fro, sometimes there were braids with or without beads, sometimes there were different sorts of twists. But nothing I was in love with and...oh, god, it's so comfortable having no hair, never mind quick.
So I'm really surprised she's doing this. It's a big change in a lot of ways. At the length I have now, we don't tend to our hair--we tend to our scalps.
It came up because I saw this video on natural hair maintenance [link] I thought it was interesting the different ways you can make it look, and the options for wearing it "out", but...good lord the prep time was out of this world. For me, I mean.
Gnargh. I forgot to make porridge last night. Ah, well. Most of the recipe time is unattended. Let me toast some oats.
Jesse - Jul 17, 2013 4:57:07 am PDT #29421 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thinking about black women's hair reminds me of the day my black coworker came in with really long twists/dreads/braids/I forget and another white coworker asked her if it was her real hair. Her hair was shoulder length on Friday! WTF do you think???
Jesse - Jul 17, 2013 5:02:37 am PDT #29422 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, should I buy a groupon for belly dance classes? I'm pretty sure I would be terrible at it.
§ ita § - Jul 17, 2013 5:04:22 am PDT #29423 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would you have fun? Is that more important?
Amy - Jul 17, 2013 5:09:53 am PDT #29424 of 30001
Because books.
It does look like a lot of fun.
ita, I can't imagine your hair any other way, but I also think super short looks great on you.
Jesse - Jul 17, 2013 5:14:28 am PDT #29425 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Would you have fun? Is that more important?
I think I would have fun, and actually think I would learn a lot about moving my body. I'ma do it. Close to my house, well-timed, and cheap. How can I say no?
beth b - Jul 17, 2013 5:56:40 am PDT #29426 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
do it , Jesse
Aims - Jul 17, 2013 6:12:55 am PDT #29427 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
But ita!, will she rock rough and tough with her afro puffs?
le nubian - Jul 17, 2013 6:47:28 am PDT #29428 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
God, I am trying to find a person to do locks because I think I finally want to lock my hair, but trying to find someone is aggravating.