The Festival Feminist

Some interviews with a few amazing women I met at the Afropunk Festival 2010 in Brooklyn. My first time with imovie AND youtube, so bare with me...

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• nicki minaj

[BarbarianLove100]

Male pride, Male Power ! Heil Females Heil

[constance380]

@jespencer804

i,m sure if I was not raised in this society i would be okay with being primative

[jespencer804]

@dasanb True these folks do say they have a lack of concern for society/mainstream but nothing and nobody exists in a vacuum sure its cool to live the way you want, but we all give in to conformity a little that's just survival 101

[dasanb]

@jespencer804 Yeah but also these people "dont care about society" so why should they be living be african american societal standards?

[jespencer804]

@dasanb you are ignoring the fact that these women, just like plenty of other African American women growing up in a black household were probably introduced first to the perm and not to a pride in wearing natural hair so its unfair to use verbiage like they are "changing the way [their] hair is, they are simply products of African American culture and their individual backgrounds. Moreover, im not saying skin doesn't define you rather i am saying it shouldn't just like hair a style shouldn't

[dasanb]

@jespencer804 obviously they arent comfortable in their own skin because they feel the need to change the way their hair is. Also in america today skin does define you to a certain degree. We cant ignore that fact no matter how much we do not want it to be true.

[jespencer804]

Thanks for posting this.

[jespencer804]

@dasanb staying true isn't about wearing your hair a certain way natural hair or permed these women are all "staying true" because they are living comfortably in their own skin. In the same what that skin color shouldn't define you, a hair style shouldn't either. Blackness is a state of living not a concrete one or the other. #peaceandpositive

[dasanb]

i loved this interview but one question comes to mind

if black is so beautiful than why do most of the black women in this video have straightened hair

I dont understand why these sisters would find the need to get the european hair

stay true

[squeekspop59]

Thanks for posting this. 50 WM punk was there that Sat. and the vibe was great. Maximum respect to all the girls in the video and all who were there. Sadly society calls w/rent and billd but keep Punk/DIY close to heart. Peace