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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Anonymous has an opinion


"What if hoards of Afrikan women realized that our hair texture makes us unique among all of the women on the Earth? That in days of old, before the oppression of our hair, our paradigm taught us that our tightly twisting coils mirrored the spiraling hair of the dieties. Our hair was compared with the swirling of galaxies, the torrential, whirling, winds of a storm. Our hair is like unto the helical meanderings of DNA - the very essence of life."

The passage above is from my post entitled, I bumped into my old stylist yesterday.

Ah, but alas, Anonymous has an opinion...
On July 11, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Anonymous left this comment in response to my post entitled, Black Women are Ugly:

"The majority of African American women exhibit masculine traits such as large hands and feet, tougher skin, and a pugnacious attitude. The general facial structure of African American women tends to exhibit an undersized chin and oversized cheeks, that is in stark contrast to women of other races who have fully developed chins and tight cheeks. African Americans also have tough hair which is usually not considered to be attractive in women."



Guilty. I have big feet.


But trade my gorgeous high cheek bones for a 'tight cheeks' and a jutting chin?!?!





~~~NOT happenin'!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

A Few Natural Do's at Danielle's Wedding

Our cousin Danielle married Terrance on July 17 at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center here in Atlanta. It seems "wedding websites" are all the rage these days...








Us.
:o)

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Sisterlocks Photos: Atlanta Meetup & Booksigning



Dr. Joanne Cornwell, originator of sisterlocks, educating, entertaining and engaging her audience as only she can!

The Atlanta Sisterlocks Meetup and book signing was a wonderful ingathering of sisters, each one of us admirers of sisterlocks whether sisterlocks wearers or contemplatives.

Natural Beauty Salon in Gwinnett County (Duluth) Georgia was a great venue. The parking was ample and the food tasty (and free!)




My consultant, Julia Stewart-Stackhaus' beautiful head of sisterlocks.

Julia is a multi-talented sister. She has a degree in broadcast journalism, she is a sisterlocks consultant extraordinaire, and a professional body builder.

[Stone Mountain: Julia Stewart-Stackhaus (404-718-9371 or 770-987-8928)]




Julia Stewart-Stackhaus' mommy wearing her beautiful silver sisterlocks.













There were brotherlocks wearers who modeled as well.
I sat next to a brother who was marveling at all of the beautiful sisters sporting their sisterlocks and saying, "I'm in the Black mans heaven." :o)



My cousin, Ebony and me by a promo photo of Joanne.



A happy Ebony with Joanne and her signed copy of "That Hair Thing"

Sunday, August 30, 2009

"How do you wash those things?" (and some lovely locs encountered this summer)

My dad asked the question..."So when you wash those things, they don't come out?

A sister wtih traditional locs from New Jersey that I encountered in the airport in Houston


I pretended not to hear him. We were on a tour bus at our family reunion and the engine was rather loud. He was sitting behind me.

A brother who was on our flight from Atlanta (Nice lats!)

But then he leaned forward and, rather loudly, continued, "I said, how do you wash those things?"

A sisterlocked mom and her daughter who just happened to be on the escalator ahead of us at Hartsfield-Jackson airport (Mom has been SL'd 8 years)

I turn around so he could hear me. "With shampoo. Like the way you wash your hair," I said in my most "uh-duh" -like voice.

A mom with traditional locs and her cuties atop Stone Mountain

That was it. I guess, since he last saw me this past spring, someone must have explained to him that I have locs.

;o)

Friday, July 10, 2009

Phyllis the VideoLoctician says don't look "Ghetto-fabalus" in the street...

[...and don't wear a satin cap around the house when your husband's at home...]

Phyllis hasn't posted any new videos lately, but I was tickled by her comments towards the end of this one!

She is showing how she sleeps at night with all of that hair and still maintains her "Spring-locs" set.



Here are a few links to other post on this blog featuring Phyllis the VideoLoctician...

Up close and personal video of sisterlocks: 600 sisterlocks on one head!

Tangled traditional locs saved by the VideoLoctician

"Dry" conditioning sisterlocks

Monday, March 2, 2009

More Coily & Kinky Hair in the Work Place

As Ross Perot used to say, I'm in "deep voodoo."

My recent post on loc'd nurses and docs' was wildy popular, but a few people felt slighted.

"What about us medical secretaries?"
"What about us in medical records?"
"What about us respiratory therapist?"
"What about us men?" ...Yada, yada, yada.

Well, I'm sure to have missed a department or two
...or three.
But here goes my first attempt at redeeming myself.

More female nurses, but a few other departments represented...and some male energy too!


Loc'd Nurses (Med-Surg)



Sisterlocks on an elevator ride - (Me, representing the doc's!)

Hair Extensions (Nurse Manager - LTAC)

Traditional Locs (Nursing ICU)

TWA 'Boy cut' (Med-Surg Nursing)

TWA (Med-Surg Nursing)

Palm-rolled locks (Medical Secetary - Unit Clerk)

Rat-tailed comb coils (Nurse Manager)

Loc's and Braid Extensions (Respiratory Therapy & Nursing ICU)

Power 'Fro! (Medical Clerk-ICU)

Babylocs, twisted 1 week (Health Information Management a.k.a. Medical Records)

Cornrows (Respiratory Therapy)

Thin traditional tooled locs >6 yrs (Med-Surg Nursing)

Mature traditional locs >7 years (Materials Management)

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Sisterlocked and other Natural Sistahs on the Study Tour of Ancient Kemet

We're back! Safe and sound on Terra firma after an 11 hour flight from Cairo to New York City. Before every Egypt Air flight, a prayer for safe travel in Arabic is played. I didn't understand what was said, but was happy to know everyone was on one accord and affirming for our safe arrival!

What a life altering experience! Our examination of the tombs and temples of Egypt with an emphasis on the Afrikan origin of the concepts and stories that we find in the 3 major western religions was fascinating. I am likely to blog more than once about what we did, where we went, what we saw and what we learned!

But today, I want to introduce you to some of my new friends who shared in this great adventure with us - wonderful, beautiful sisters and a few handsome brothers too!



Naomi (weave extension - Cairo Airport)


Robert (palm-rolled traditional locs - alabaster factory in Luxor)




Mikey (short fade - Tomb of the Nobles in Aswan)




Ben (uncultivated traditional locs - cruising under the Aswan Bridge - sorry for the blur!)



Sharon S. (sisterlocked 2 years - the Giza Plateau)
Sharon H. (palm-rolled traditional locs - the Great Pyramid at Giza)
Diane (Kinky twist extensions - the 'New Ark' of Pharoah Khufu)
Michelle (two strand twists - on the Giza Plateau)

Me, in Cairo, at the Conrad Hotel overlooking the Nile River!

Finally, at Dashur, with Dr. Ray Hagins who is sporting his signature "skinny" under his cap.

Go to http://www.wblr.com/ and create an account to view more photos of this years tour. Plans for the 2009 trip are already underway!

More to come!

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