{"id":5753,"date":"2009-05-07T00:21:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T05:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5753"},"modified":"2009-05-07T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T13:26:22","slug":"hair_today_gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/hair_today_gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated with the politics of hair, especially since the days of living in the hood of L.A. and having to drive by signs that said, &#8220;100% Indian Hair&#8221; on a regular basis. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiretapmag.org\/immigration\/31939\/\">I couldn&#8217;t wrap my head around the idea that women of color were exploiting other women of color.<\/a> And of course we all now know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002948.html\">the story of where that hair comes from<\/a>&#8230;But what about for those that are obsessed with plucking hair, keeping it natural, or not cutting it at all?<\/p>\n\n<p><center><object width=\"400\" height=\"270\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4502940&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4502940&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/4502940\">&#8220;Hair&#8221; Documentary<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1708809\">Will Ellis<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>I like how in the doc Sonny Singh of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sikhcoalition.org\/default.asp\">The Sikh Coalition<\/a> talks about how his turban is a symbol of fighting <em>against<\/em> tyranny. Additionally, Sonny recently <a href=\"http:\/\/sikhcoalition.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/04\/reclaiming-coolness-the-northeast-turban-and-personality-competition\/\">blogged about the Northeast Turban and Personality Competition<\/a> where young people strut with turban tied high.<\/p>\n\n<p>To have hair or to not have hair. To chop it, dye it, fake it, or to liberty spike it. It&#8217;s all political, in one way or another. What does hair mean to you? <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated with the politics of hair, especially since the days of living in the hood of L.A. and having to drive by signs that said, &#8220;100% Indian Hair&#8221; on a regular basis. I couldn&#8217;t wrap my head around &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/hair_today_gone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}