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Here's a good post about the natural hair movement in black culture.

I love Afro-ethnic hair.  Woolly hair.  Squiggly hair.  Nappy hair.  Hair in amazing braids.  Hair in dreadlocks.  Hair in a short little cap.  Hair sculpted into phantasmagoric shapes.  All hair can be wonderful hair.

Thinking about this, I realize that I customarily write my black characters with natural hair.  I can't recall ever having written one with artificially straightened hair, although I suppose I might have.  I don't think I'd do that unless it had a point in the story.  *ponder*  Partly because of my own diverse tastes, but also because I tend to pick characters who like themselves. 

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Date: 2012-11-27 06:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com
>> I saw lots of lovely people of colour with dreads - or a riot of braids - whilst travelling recently, and thought of you... :) (alas, I didn't have the chutzpah to snap a pic, solicited or no...) <<

I like the hairstyle. Alter!Pat has impressive dreadlocks in one dimension.

>> And... I imagine writing a character who doesn't like herself at least by end-of-story isn't very pleasant to write. <<

Yeah, that is rarely fun. The few times I've done it, most have been a journey of self-discovery. I can only think of one or two where the character was just that bleak.

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