It’s been a while since I wrote an english post, right ? Even if I try to dedicate my blog to french readers, I am more and more concerned about keeping in touch with english-speaker fellows ! If you did not follow the last afrofeminist events taking place in Paris, here is a little recap : […]
Étiquette : black feminist
It is easy to r…
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts […]
In particular I…
In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it’s not just hair. I mean, I’m interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie