As I text messaged my girlfriends today asking if they had an iron, each replied with, “No, I use my hair straightener.” Each one of them. I did not know this creative practice, to use your hair straightener to iron, it is as creative (well, besides the burns to the face) when women once used irons as hair straighteners. Very interesting this dual usage.
Allora…(Florentine for “anyways.”)
A late notice, but if you are in town this Friday or do not have classes Friday, there is an Africana Symposium being held this Friday (tomorrow) all day in Taylor 404 and in Transitions in Warren.
Here is the link to the event: http://www.jmu.edu/international/africanastudiesconference.shtml
***All sessions are in Taylor 404 other than Poster Session which is in Transitions***
Specific sessions on Africana Women include:
8-845 AM–Lara Shpilsky, HIStory: The Cinematic Representation of the Black Woman
9-10 AM–Representation, Body, and Image Culture
1115- 12PM *(Transitions)–Samantha Dettmer & Kristi Van Sickle, The African Princess Party: Mothers and Daughters Reclaiming Self and Culture
—Rachael Capone, Merry Go-Round: Women Appropiating Old School Practices in a Modern World
1115-12 PM–Dr. Marame Gueye, Sembene and the Culture of Woman in Sembene’s Work
1-2PM– Dr. Caroline Tushabe, Epistemic Violence, Politics of Morality and the Question of Sexual Freedom in Uganda
—Lewis Levenberg, How Mumia Queers Prison (and Makes it an African Diasporic Space)
2-330 PM– Dr. Jessie Kabwila Kapasula, Motherhood in Africa and Afro-diasporic Transnation Spaces-A Curse of Blessing: A Comparative Analysis of Danticat, Dangarembga and Adichie
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