Pictures from “You Can Touch My Hair” Interactive Exhibit @ Union Square June 9, 2013.
Bahaha
omg tho. yesssss. wow.
Comparing this to Sarah Barratman is just sooooooooo far fetched. Come on now, its hair. If you don’t want people touching your hair then don’t let them! But if someone wants to let other people touch their hair then so be it! I’ve never seen something so small be made into such a big deal.
i don’t know if you’ve been following this supposed art exhibit. but the woman who started this said she didn’t understand why people might feel like an animal in a zoo by having their hair touched by white people and literally said she just wanted to help white people get over their curiosity. she asked white people why they were curious and they said it was because oh it’s just like a snake when you wanna touch it you’re curious. the white woman equated black people to animals that you just wanna pet because… curiosity. the woman running the exhibit has brushed aside other black women’s thoughts and feelings on that, said they were extreme and that was the birth of this. to shit on other black women to allow white people to satiate a curiosity.
are we going to pretend this wont have real life consequences? the situation isn’t the same as sarah baartman but the mentality of whites is. especially since when one black person says it’s ok, white people think it’s cool. and then they gon wanna touch other peoples head without consent, which they do. which is why women are mad. cause no. and just like white people thought they had ownership of black womens bodies and could do whatever by seeing how baartman was treated and how they flooded to see her, this is a similar mentality where white people want to observe and touch without actually engaging. if that’s nothing to you cool, but don’t play like this doesn’t have real life consequences and the woman who started this is taking a stab at other women who have asked white people constantly, don’t touch my shit.
