Mum: Finding hair-dresser that can do braids shouldn’t have to be hard work … send out plea on yr blog and see what yr fan-dom can find ( :
Me: My fandom which has, as far as I can tell, 0 black people?
Me: (I swear this was unintentional)
Mum: yes, but this would be a treasure hunt … who has black friends? or who can acquire black friends fast enough to help Alison with her braids? ( :
Mum: or at the very least acquire information about black people … …
Mum: You’d be helping them broaden their cultural horizons … .
Me: I am putting this conversation on Tumblr.
Mum: oh yr wicked!
Me: Winner gets to add me to their (probably tiny, but growing!) pool of black friends
Hey, I kind of know (we’re working in the same conspiracy together, never met her IRL though because I’m an internet ghost to a lot of people) like one black person who I think has the relevant kind of hair (and who probably knows where to find someone who can braid… so the upper bound for the distance within a suitable black friend-of-a-friend can be found is less than 9000km! Not very helpful but intersectional feminism is actually really useful sometimes. (now that I think of it I could like seriously try to leverage some connections to find someone who’s actually in the right hemisphere at least…)
@sinesalvatorem: I got a personal recommendation from someone suggesting that this place is not only actually in the right hemisphere and even the right region but also “the owners of the salon are two Eritrean women who are renowned in the area for braiding (esp Sesen)”. Does this count as winning?
(via socialjusticemunchkin)
3 months ago · tagged #also i am entertained how i did it almost 9000km away #from by far the whitest country in western europe #my little feminist: networking is magic · 37 notes · source: sinesalvatorem · .permalink