ellebelle88
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from: Clutch Magazine
Touching hair is a controversial topic within the natural hair community. Several women with natural hair have to deal with unwelcome touches or various requests to discover what their hair texture feels like. Some are perhaps happy to oblige but most compare the experience to feeling like an animal at a petting zoo.
An editorial site that focuses on the black hair experience, un-ruly.com is exploring the touching phenomenon in an unconventional way. They are launching an interactive public exhibit called “You Can Touch My Hair,” which will take place today and on June 8th, 2013 from 2-4pm in New York City’s Union Square.
The exhibit is being touted as their effort to “take one for the team and explore the tactile fascination with black hair.” As part of the project, “strangers from all walks of life will have the welcomed opportunity to touch various textures of black hair.”
It will be fascinating to see how the touching strangers and participating subjects feel about their experience once the exhibit comes to a close. What do you think about “You Can Touch My Hair,” Clutchettes?
RSVP here and get more information about the exhibit here.
One reader posted this response:
This sounds like another way to fetishize black women.
Another said this: why the hell is there an art exhibit appeasing white women’s desire to touch my hair? So what if they are curious? Is it the black woman’s job to bend over backwards in an attempt to explain ourselves everytime a person of another race acts like we’re aliens? This is stupid stupid stupid.
I have to say I agree with the comments. Thoughts???
Touching hair is a controversial topic within the natural hair community. Several women with natural hair have to deal with unwelcome touches or various requests to discover what their hair texture feels like. Some are perhaps happy to oblige but most compare the experience to feeling like an animal at a petting zoo.
An editorial site that focuses on the black hair experience, un-ruly.com is exploring the touching phenomenon in an unconventional way. They are launching an interactive public exhibit called “You Can Touch My Hair,” which will take place today and on June 8th, 2013 from 2-4pm in New York City’s Union Square.
The exhibit is being touted as their effort to “take one for the team and explore the tactile fascination with black hair.” As part of the project, “strangers from all walks of life will have the welcomed opportunity to touch various textures of black hair.”
It will be fascinating to see how the touching strangers and participating subjects feel about their experience once the exhibit comes to a close. What do you think about “You Can Touch My Hair,” Clutchettes?
RSVP here and get more information about the exhibit here.
One reader posted this response:
This sounds like another way to fetishize black women.
Another said this: why the hell is there an art exhibit appeasing white women’s desire to touch my hair? So what if they are curious? Is it the black woman’s job to bend over backwards in an attempt to explain ourselves everytime a person of another race acts like we’re aliens? This is stupid stupid stupid.
I have to say I agree with the comments. Thoughts???