Bye bye hair

I've been feeling like I've needed to get rid of some excess .....stuff in my life that has been weighing me down. The last few months have been a bit crazy starting in late Spring. But, that's all behind me now and to complete the transformation I chopped most of my hair off yesterday. Yep, you heard right...hair...gone. Thank goodness I have a pretty shaped head lol.

First pics below :)

Naturalistas Meetup 2012

The Naturalistas Meetup on Saturday was a GREAT time! We talked about various hair culture topics including hair in the corporate world, reactions from family & friends when we decided to go natural, women's sensitivites to hair touching, creamy crack and the list goes on!

Our featured Artist Amina Shaw created this beautiful piece of art during the event

Kharys Gomez won the raffle for the artwork!!

Check out more pics from the event below and if you are a Boston-based Naturalista be sure to join our Facebook group

Event Host Adobuere Ebiama (left) and Naturalista Sonjai Farley

Adobuere Ebiama with co-host Marquita Niles

And of course A HUGE THANK YOU to our VIP Sponsor CURLS as well as Kinky-Curly for providing us with goodies for our Naturalistas!

Naturalistas Meetup!

Hosting my second Curly Girls/Naturals/Naturalistas whatever you wanna call it MEETUP this December! Check it out by clicking HERE

Two exciting new things!!

Just wanted to let you all know two exciting things!

1. I'm a teacher now! Eeek! I'll be teaching Theatre and Spoken Word at a high school here in my hometown Boston, MA. It's part-time so as not to overwhelm but still very exciting!!

2. I'm organizing my second naturals event in Dorchester, MA. Set for sometime in mid-October. Stay tuned for details on the event!

Wanted to share with ya'll! Happy times :D

Be well,
Dobs

Curly Girls

It's easy to feel alone in the city. For some reason when making decisions both small & large we can feel as though we are the only ones that have ever experienced it. Last night I learned how wrong this belief can be.

I hosted a Curly Girls/Naturals Meetup & sat down to the great company of 10-12 women who have natural hair. It was a small celebration of sorts. We shared hairstories and to my great suprise I heard echoes of my own experience as we went around the room to share how we ended up perm-less. Some women said it was an emotional decision that led to the cut. For some the BIG CHOP symbolized nothing at all but it did make life easier by allowing the hair to be more affordable & easy to maintain. Some shared that they had been called "ugly", their physical appearance was recently compared to looking like Arsenio Hall in the film COMING TO AMERICA and told their hair looks like a "trash basket". Unfortunately that's just the tip of the iceberg. But the whole meeting wasn't to dispose the negatives. We saw that
although there is stigma there is also a lot of positivity, support & understanding within the community of natural girls as well.

When I cut my weave out & chopped my straight hair off in 09' I was definitely NOT trying to make a statement. Nor was I on a "Black Power" trip. I didn't even make the observation that I was "going natural". I was a broke, confused, nomadic 20 year old. Frankly, I just didn't want the weaves anymore. Just as many women pointed out last night, going natural made the most sense to me at that point in my life. Will we all be "natural" forever? Is it just a phase we're going through? A trend? Something cool to post on Youtube? Or a new franchise to feed on the pockets of women? Who knows?

Oh and BY THE WAY: We didn't ALL LOVE "Good Hair" the documentary and we're not all super-bohemian, perm-bashing hippies either.

One thing I can say for sure is that we love ourselves & have come to accept what we have naturally and that's good enough for me for now.

-Dobs