The Books & Hair LOC'D

HAIR
SHAMPOOING WITH DESIGN ESSENTIALS AND CONDITIONING WITH PAUL MITCHELLS’ LEAVE IN CONDITIONER– THE CONDITIONER
 
BOOKS
- WHY I’M NO LONGER TALKING TO WHITE PEOPLE ABOUT RACE 
BY RENI EDDO-LODGE
THE FEMINISM QUESTION, PAGE 184
IT’S CLEAR THAT EQUALITY DOESN’T QUITE CUT IT. ASKING FOR A SLIVER OF DISPROPORTIONAL POWER IS TOO POLITE A REQUEST. I DON’T WANT TO BE INCLUDED. INSTEAD, I WANT TO QUESTION WHO CREATED THE STANDARD IN THE FIRST PLACE. AFTER A LIFETIME OF EMBODYING DIFFERENCE, I HAVE NO DESIRE TO BE EQUAL. I WANT TO DECONSTRUCT THE STRUCTURAL POWER OF A SYSTEM THAT MARKED ME OUT AS DIFFERENT. I DON’T WISH TO BE ASSIMILATED INTO THE STATUS QUO. I WANT TO BE LIBERATED FROM ALL NEGATIVE ASSUMPTIONS THAT MY CHARACTERISTICS BRING. THE ONUS IS NOT ON ME TO CHANGE. INSTEAD, IT’S THE WORLD AROUND ME. EQUALITY IS FINE AS A TRANSITIONAL DEMAND, BUT IT’S DISHONEST NOT TO RECOGNISE IT FOR WHAT IT IS – THE EASY ROUTE. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAYING ‘WE WANT TO BE INCLUDED’ AND SAYING ‘WE WANT TO RECONSTRUCT YOUR EXCLUSIVE SYSTEM’. THE FORMER IS MORE READILY ACCEPTED INTO THE MAINSTREAM.
 
- OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT 
BY MALIDOMA PATRICE SOME
CHAPTER 15 – TRYING TO SEE, PAGE 202
IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THE DAGARA KNOWLEDGE WAS LIQUID IN THE SENSE THAT WHAT I WAS LEARNING WAS LIVING, BREATHING, FLEXIBLE AND SPONTANEOUS. WHAT I WAS LEARNING ONLY MADE SENSE IN TERMS OF RELATIONSHIP. IT WAS NOT FIXED, EVEN WHEN IT APPEARED TO BE SO. FOR EXAMPLE TREES ARE NOT IMMOBILE, THEY TRAVEL LIKE US FROM PLACE TO PLACE. BY CONTRAST, I COULD SEE THAT THE WESTERN KNOWLEDGE I HAD BEEN GIVEN HAD THE NATURE OF A SOLID BECAUSE IT IS WRAPPED IN LOGICAL RHETORIC TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT IT IS STIFF AND INFLEXIBLE.
 
- APRO-ISM 
BY APH AND SYL KO
CHAPTER 19 – CREATING NEW CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE, PAGE 133
AFROFUTURISM IS A DEPARTURE FROM OUR PAST, WHICH HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY WHITE SUPREMACY. ALTHOUGH WE MAY FEEL A DEFICIT IN TERMS OF KNOWING WHO WE ARE BECAUSE OF SLAVERY AND COLONISATION, THESE ACTIONS HAVE IRONICALLY FORCED US TO REWRITE OURSELVES AND FIND NEWER WAYS OF RESISTING THE DOMINANT POWER STRUCTURES, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT THE DOMINANT CLASS DIDN’T EXPECT. I NO LONGER WANT OR NEED WHITE SUPREMACY TOT ELL ME WHO I AM, WHAT I’M ALLOWED TO DO, AND WHO I’M ALLOWED TO BE. I HAVE THE POWER TO REWRITE MYSELF AND MY NARRATIVE.

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