Going-Natural Hair Care, the new hair product line from America launching this week, presents Bad Hair Uprooted, an exhibition aimed at decolonizing kinky hair.
The exhibition, featuring hairstyles that sparked the Internet revolution of natural hair, highlights the social injustice that afro-textured roots carry with them.
Dreadlocks, afros, and cornrows are all hairstyles that naturally come with kinky hair, but are rarely or never accepted in a work environment. As a result, women with kinky and curly hair suffer disproportionately more from hair breakage and hair loss than any other ethnic group, despite spending more time and money on their hair.
The exhibition and the book of the same name, Kroeshaar Ontworteld, criticize the fact that the Negroid race is the only people on earth that does not have the fundamental human right to wear their hair in a natural way. Black people are the only ones who have to go to court to ask permission to wear their hair in dreadlocks, a hairstyle that is the healthiest way to grow frizzy hair, but is structurally stigmatized and stereotyped.
The exhibition will open on Thursday, March 17 at Spice Quest at Dr. Nassy laan 107. From 7:00, you can enjoy a snack and a drink while viewing photos of hairstyles taken in Brooklyn, New York, the city that laid the foundation for the current growing afro hair movement.
In addition to presenting the book, Drs. Mireille Liong, a frizzy hair entrepreneur from the very beginning, will also give a lecture on the unwritten history of frizzy hair.
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Peacock Locs featured in Bad Hair Uprooted .