Meet Miss Rizos, the Woman Behind One of Santo Domingo’s Only Natural Hair Salons

Ghislaine Leon — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:42:04 +0000

As corporate brands have rushed to push out products in the growing curly hair consumer market, the women behind the curtains of the industry who work in urban playing fields and push the ‘au naturale’ rhetoric have their ambitions set on the real problem below the surface: How can we combat racism and promote self-love

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Why I Stopped Relaxing My Hair

Ghislaine Leon — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:11:05 +0000

Any idea can be embedded into a person’s subconscious. In the case of the island of Hispaniola, which is shared by modern-day Dominican Republic and Haiti, that idea is the complejo colonial – the racial inferiority complex born of colonization and centuries of dominant white supremacist ideology. As a Dominican-American woman who grew up in the West Harlem

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