BAD Hair Uprooted - My Documentary in the Making

De Ketenen van Haaruitval bij Ala Kondre - Multicultureel Centrum in Amsterdam-Zuidoost Vorig jaar kreeg ik het mooie verzoek om een lezing te verzorgen in buurthuis Ala Kondre in Amsterdam-Zuidoost....

For Keti Koti, I presented The Chains of Hair Loss for the first time, as part of BAD Hair Uprooted, my platform for equal hair rights. In this new lecture,...

Vier continenten, vier landen, één Keti Koti Vierentwintig jaar nadat ik de allereerste haar website van Nederland lanceerde, ben ik  dankbaar dat ik deze Keti Koti maand de gelegenheid heb...

Bad Hair Uprooted: Kinky Hair, Locs & Equal Hair Rights Last Sunday, I had the pleasure of presenting my documentary Bad Hair Uprooted in a packed hall at Mart Radio,...

The comment by yet another well-known TV personality has really hit hard. During the program 'Bubbles & Gloss,' the host first remarked that "you can't do much with it." "It"...

When Gaia Skye shared her racist experience on Facebook, she didn’t expect to get over 7,000 likes in a day, nor for her inbox to overflow. The employer who fired...

Whether there is a connection between the call to ban dreadlocks and the non-acceptance of frizzy hair styles is not clear. The fact is that since that standard statement by...

Cornrows or kwiekwieba now so-called boxer braids The video “Gev(l)echt met je haar” by RTL4 has caused quite a stir in the Black community. Very understandable, because just as it...

Dear Minister Peneux, As a frizzy hair expert who has studied this hair type for years, precisely because I myself have suffered from hair loss as a result of using...

With Aline Tacite from Boucles d'Ebene At the invitation of Aline Tacite, the power woman behind Boucles d'Ebene, I left super enthusiastically for Paris, to participate in the 10th anniversary...

Although her career as a professional hairstylist never took off, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o still has a penchant for braiding hair, as evidenced by a video shot by Vogue Magazine...

Until I decided to wear my hair naturally frizzy, I had hardly thought about the consequences of slavery. Growing up in Suriname, I never lacked anything. Without wanting to be...