Posts tagged with ‘identity’

Check out this video. It’s a discussion I had about bi-racial hair with Al Letson and Hari Kondabolu for the Skin You’re In series on WorldCompass.

In the first part of the video a young girl vents her frustration with her hair through spoken word poetry. In the latter part of the video (at the 5 minute mark), we talk about (or I talk about) our own frustrations. I admit to spending about an hour straightening my hair with the ol’ heat iron… and it just ends up getting wavy at best. Bad hair days take a whole new level when you have very curly hair… and my hair is cloud puff curly. Many times I love it, and other times I just want to shave it all off. But what’s interesting is how through that frustration we can achieve a deep type of self-acceptance. Mainly because the hair will not give you a choice. It’s like a weed. :)

I’m curious to know from the curly-headed mop crew (especially the girls), do you notice a difference in the way people react to you when you wear your hair curly? When I wear it curly, people think I’m just wild and creative, when it’s straight I get taken more seriously, especially at meetings. What’s your take?

7 Steps To Building Your Online Identity!

Yes, it’s a new episode of Epic Fu! We’re coming back with a series of episodes about living life online.

In this one, we have 7 simple steps to building your online identity, from the planning stages to your public internet presence. We show you how to construct an ID that will last in the constantly changing social web and examples of who’s doing it right! A must-watch for newbies and web veterans alike. :) More here.