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Happy Black Girl Day x Assimilation x Whiteness
by Guest Contributor Renina Jarmon (M.Dot), originally published at Model Minority Black assimilation is premised on being accepted by White people and making them feel comfortable. In reading Kevin...
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White Teacher Kicks out Black Student over Hair-Care Product
By Sexual Correspondent Andrea Plaid I could barely contain my rage when I saw this item: In Seattle, Wash., a white male teacher had an 8-year-old African American girl removed from the classroom. In...
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Kinkosis [Essay]
by Guest Contributor Safa Samiezade’-Yazd, Special to Racialicious Hard to believe, but I was born bald. Not cute little peach-fuzz bald. Not skinhead bald with a chance of stubble. No, I was born with...
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Boo, Hiss: True Blood Recap “Evil is Going On” S03E12
Hosted by Thea Lim, with Tami Winfrey Harris, Latoya Peterson, Andrea Plaid and Joseph Lamour Thea: Well. Colour me disappointed. Laffy and Jesus get all of 5 seconds in the season finale, the...
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Open Thread: Sesame Street Spreads Black (Women’s) Hair Love
By Sexual Correspondent Andrea (AJ) Plaid I guess if anyone had to offer a corrective to the Black (Women’s) Hair Debate™, it had to be Sesame Street. And if the YouTube comments (as if my submitting...
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The Weave and I: A Love Story
By Guest Contributor Alona Sistrunk, cross-posted from HairPolitik When I was in eighth grade, my English teacher asked each student to place five items in a box that best represented him or her. In my...
View ArticleThe Natural Hair Debate and Beauty Standards
by Latoya Peterson Via Curly Nikki, we find this awesome video by Diamond Stylz about rocking a natural as a transgender woman. Unfortunately, there is no transcript, but Diamond makes some major...
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WTF Files: Justin Bieber Touches Esperanza Spalding’s Hair
By Sexual Correspondent Andrea (AJ) Plaid I think the question, “Who the **** Is Esperanza Spalding?” is getting a rather thorough answer since her Grammy win: incredible jazz instrumentalist/vocalist...
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Dark Girls: A Review of a Preview [Culturelicious]
By Sexual Correspondent Andrea (AJ) Plaid **TRIGGER WARNING** I recognize the women in this preview: these women were me when I was growing up. The kids at my mostly black Catholic school called me...
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Awkward Black Girl’s No-pology to Transgender Fans and Allies
By Andrea (AJ) Plaid If you’ve seen the latest episode of The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (ABG), you probably caught J’s best friend Cece refer to White Jay’s ex as a “tr***y bitch in heels.”...
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Hair’s To You: The Idie Okonkwo Story Marvel Won’t Tell Us
By Guest Contributor Cheryl Lynn Eaton, cross-posted from Digital Femme Straight, curly, relaxed, or natural—it really shouldn’t matter how you wear your hair. And yet it does. Simply put, when one...
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Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters
By Guest Contributor Danielle Fuentes Morgan Courtesy: Politico.com It’s a question President Obama has undoubtedly been asked before. It’s almost a universal African American experience, except this...
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Take A Load Off, Family: Black Women, Hair, And The Olympic Stage
By Guest Contributor Jalylah, cross-posted from The Crunk Feminist Collective The author on the move in Harlem. I am no athlete. I have not won an individual sports competition since maybe the second...
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Excerpt: “Why You Listening To That White Sh-t?”
Writing this book, I found other black women who had felt rejected by friends, family members, or their communities because of their musical preferences. At one point, I distributed a mass...
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When Will The Media Start Portraying Black Women Without Betraying Them?
Lakesia Johnson’s new book Iconic highlights how negative stereotypes have followed black women from Sojourner Truth to Gabby Douglas, and shows how the black community can be among the worst...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: Jada Pinkett Smith On Willow Smith’s Hair
By Andrea Plaid Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith. Photo Credit: Bauer Griffin. Image via Zimbio What captured the most likes and reblogs in our corner of Tumblr this week? Jada Pinkett Smith on her...
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Nana Efua’s “Fairy”
By Andrea Plaid You know that I usually crush out on people–or some videos or blog–in this weekly post. This week, I find myself crushing hard on a photo, thanks to Tumblizen bad-dominicana putting...
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Don’t Call It A Comeback: The Presence Of Natural Hair
By Guest Contributor Aisha Davis Image Credit: Instant Vantage Last Monday, Simon Doonan pulled the best prank of the year: he pleaded for the return of the afro. This was not a spontaneous call to...
View ArticleOpen Thread: The Rush To Memeify Charles Ramsey
By Arturo R. García As both Kat Chow at Code Switch and Slate’s Aisha Harris have pointed out, it did not take long for Charles Harris to join Antoine Dodson and Sweet Brown as the latest figure to be...
View ArticleHair touching…again
It has been revealed that the controversial exhibit in New York City’s Union Square earlier this year that prompted passersby to touch black women’s hair was actually part of a larger exploration...
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