Bad Hair Uprooted: Hair, history and awareness at Keti Koti July 06, 2025Mireille Liong 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,...
Bush Negro hair; who would want to walk around like that every day? May 10, 2018Mireille Liong1 comment 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"...
Fired because you don't have your color and then you also wear braids November 09, 2016Mireille Liong 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...
Frizzy hair is still an issue July 17, 2016Mireille Liong 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...
Columbus Discovers "Boxer Braids" March 06, 2016Mireille Liong 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, Why shouldn't Dreadlocks be allowed? September 09, 2015Mireille Liong 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...
Bad Hair Uprooted in Paris June 06, 2015Mireille Liong 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...
Lupita, Kinky Hair and Black Beauty July 13, 2014Mireille Liong 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...
Bad Hair Uprooted June 25, 2013Mireille Liong 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...
Keti Koti, Kinky Hair, and the Unprocessed Traces of Slavery June 08, 2013M. Liong Keti Koti and Kinky Hair: Traces of Slavery Traces of the Trade. That is the translated title of the impressive documentary Traces of the Trade. Director Katrina Browne follows the traces of...
Between mommy's legs... May 05, 2011M. Liong From the time I was born until I was six, my mother always combed my hair and braided it into two thick braids. Every morning, she would take turns doing...
A difficult question during the Haiti meeting September 18, 2010M. Liong During my presentation at the Haitian Cultural Organization I was asked this question. What would you say? Last week was a very, very busy week. Besides being invited by the...