Resources

Further Reading & Resources

Do We Have a Problem With Afro Hair?

SKY News

New York is right to ban hair discrimination. Now how about the UK?

The Guardian

From slavery to colonialism and school rules, navigating the history of myths about black hair

Quartz Africa

Pass The CROWN: Why This Exec Is On A Mission To End Black Hair Discrimination

xoNecole

Gabby Douglas Gets Honest About Her Natural Hair Journey: “I Have Developed Thick Skin

Refinery29

From slavery to colonialism and school rules, navigating the history of myths about black hair

Quartz Africa

Was It Our Hair? Or Was It You?

Glamour

11 Black Women Get Real About Natural Hair at Job Interviews

Shape

Thandie Newton Shares Her Experience With Hair Discrimination

Refinery29

Employers Have Policed Black Hair for Decades. These Four Women Have Had Enough

Glamour

Ruby Williams: No child with afro hair should suffer like me

BBC News

Students are waging war on sexist and racist school dress codes — and they’re winning

Refinery29

When Black Women Were Required By Law to Cover Their Hair

Vice

Black Hair, Media & America: A twisted history

Natural Hair Products

A Visual History of Iconic Black Hairstyles

History.com

Books & Reports

Don’t Touch My Hair

Emma Dabiri

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Good Hair: The Essential Guide to Afro, Textured and Curly Hair

Charlotte Mensah

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Hair Equality Report

World Afro Day

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The Good Hair Study

Perception Institute

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Kink

Jay-Ann Lopez & Patrina Charles

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Videos

Don’t Touch My Hair: an interview with Emma Dabiri

Penguin Books UK

In this exclusive collaboration with gal-dem, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff interviews Emma Dabiri on her debut book, Don’t Touch My Hair.

The History of Black Hair

Chime Edwards

A short history of Afro-textured hair and hairstyles and their significance.

The Psychology of Black Hairby Johanna Lukate

TEDx Cambridge University

A TEDx talk on how Black hair is never neutral, and how the histories of slavery, colonialism, and discrimination are weaved into our understanding of Black hair and bodies.