Good Hair- The Movie

My friend Ariel and fellow STB Intern put me on to the new Chris Rock movie. It's nothing like what he usually does (click on the tittle for the link). He has this funny yet insightful documentary coming out called "Good Hair" and ..... Where the hell was this movie when I wrote my 20 pg final seminar paper in the Spring? It was tittled- "Pelo Bueno, Pelo Malo: Getting to the Root of the Matter". It chronicles the historic and cultural reasons behind the Dominican hair dresser phenomenon and Latinos and black people and hair and all that good ish. I took an amazing class with Professor Antonio Lopez called Black Cultures of the Americas. In a nutshell it was about how race/"blackness" is perceived in Latin America versus the US. In the US race is binary- black or white whereas in the Latin America, it is a fluid concept. Don't get caught calling a dark skinned person in LAm black- they might cut you. You're Indio or some other category. Brazil has got like 7 tipios. Now this was a critical theory class, which is like philosophy of pop culture, literature and history with a whole lot of big words and anything is a condition of a whole lot of shit all at once. Back to my paper (my A paper cough lol) I wrote about my struggles with my hair. It's a very Latino specific perspective but since everyone thinks I'm African-American I probably go through all the shit the people in Chris Rock's movie do- minus the weave. (I don't believe in weaves as a personal choice) My hair is od curly and my sister's is not. So my mom permed my hair growing up. In ninth grade I chopped off my hair and grew out my perm. Oh naturale. My hair is a lot of work to manage so I sympathize with black women even though they tell me I got good hair (tell that to my mom). Honestly, I haven't combed my hair in months. Sometimes I put gel in the front lol. I rock my hair curly during the summer and straight the rest of the year. When it's straight, I do it once and don't wrap it or much else- too much work- until its time to wash it. I bribe my roommates to do my hair for me or Sesen. lol. I say forget, women spend too much time trynna be barbie.

I AM NOT MY HAIR.

Deuces,
Naz.