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On Natural Hair...

Below are some of my essays regarding natural hair. (View photographs and/or video of natural hair posted on Gradient Lair.)

  1. White Women’s Racist Responses To Black Women’s Natural Hair
  2. Black Girls and Dolls; Black Women and Pinterest
  3. I Can’t Have A Conversation With Another Black Woman In Public Without Interruption?
  4. Natural Hair IS For Everybody
  5. “I Am Not My Hair”
  6. Black Beauty Supply Store Circulars
  7. Black Bodies: Objects For White Profit, Power and Pleasure
  8. 7 Things To STOP Saying To Black Women About Beauty
  9. Salon Stories
  10. White Women In Black Natural Hair Spaces
  11. Nope. You Still Can’t Touch Me. Gender Irrelevant.
  12. Silence On Colourism In The Natural Hair World
  13. “But…We Look…Alike…”
  14. The Melissa Harris-Perry Show, Black Women, and The Politics of Natural Hair
  15. Natural Hair Hierarchies?
  16. My Natural Hairstory (and 4 Awesome Natural Hair Pinterest Boards)

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62 Awesome Photosets of Celebrity Black Women

Below are links to some of the photosets that I’ve posted/reblogged of celebrity Black women being awesome and looking awesome.

  1. Kerry Washington at George Washington University
  2. Four legends of Hollywood: Diahann, Cicely, Nichelle and Ruby*
  3. Kerry Washington in Elle Magazine
  4. Gabrielle Douglas training
  5. Black women, Tony Award nominees for 2013
  6. Black women, Time 100 List
  7. Janelle Monae in Essence Magazine
  8. Black moms from classic Black sitcoms
  9. Naomie Harris
  10. Janelle Monae at Essence dinner
  11. Amber Riley’s adorable face
  12. Angela and Fania Davis, then and now
  13. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
  14. North African women
  15. Janelle Monae in grey
  16. Sarah Batt
  17. Dianna Ross
  18. Erykah Badu’s discography
  19. 8 awesome Black women in political media
  20. Tina Turner in Vogue Germany
  21. Shanola Hampton
  22. Michelle Obama in Vogue Magazine
  23. 4 awesome gems, Quvenzhané, Willow, Amandla and Gabrielle
  24. Tia and Tamera in Essence Magazine
  25. Miriam Makeba discography
  26. Miriam Makeba
  27. Kelly Rowland
  28. Danai Gurira
  29. Dobet Gnahoré
  30. Black women at the 2013 Academy Awards
  31. Grace Bol
  32. Whitney Houston
  33. Black women at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards
  34. Black women at the 2013 Grammy Awards
  35. Gabourey Sidibe
  36. Solange for Rimmel
  37. natural hair portraits that I’ve created as a photographer
  38. Serena Williams on the court
  39. Quvenzhané Wallis
  40. Alek Wek in As If Magazine
  41. Grace Jones
  42. popular Black actresses in the 90s
  43. India.Arie
  44. Ellen Oléria
  45. Danai Gurira, headshots
  46. Janelle Monae, tux style
  47. Serena Williams’ year of winning in 2012
  48. Solange’s awesome style
  49. Raven Symone’s many characters
  50. Janelle Monae, performing
  51. “Olivia Pope”
  52. Michelle Obama, in black and white
  53. Angela Bassett
  54. Aaliyah
  55. Nina Simone
  56. Venus and Serena in NYT
  57. Amber Riley
  58. U.S. Women’s Track & Field
  59. Venus and Serena
  60. Black women, Olympic swimmers
  61. Gabrielle Douglas at the Olympics
  62. Toni Morrison gets Presidential Medal of Freedom

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