Wave 1
shell to ear
a hearing and holding of our journeys
the recording of record
Why have we forgotten?
your afro hair story
whose planetary bodies and wata's, influence and impacts, your earth, you body or water, your cosmology?
Wave 2
The tea is that there is no tea. The tea is the record that you have now drank warm and that you allow to commune with your body of water.
A rest from the record.
S(hell)s off no longer, waiting to exhale
Stretch
Movement
Meditation
Write
Partnered Hand or Scalp Massage
Water without moving the water within. Internal assessment within the community. Not looking to others but to self.
We gossip when instead we should turn inward and allow our discernment to help us form our own personal cosmology which then forms the foundation for a diverse community.
Where does you body and hair hold others influence and how do you release it?
What happens when you don't?
Holes poked in S(hell)s
How do we re(pair)?
High Tide
High Tide
High Tide
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Litm(us) is the evolution of Black Beauty School which was founded in 2019. The East and West Coast Tour happened the summer into fall of 2021.
The original container was created as way to remove the barriers that exist between hairstylists and their Afro hair clientele.
Litm(us) is a ritual praxis in Afrikan/Black embodiment.
It is a healing modality that happens within community restoring the craft to Afrikan hairstylist and the ritual to our daily care of self practices which should be tendered among community. It is a recording or record and a setting free of our scalps from secrecy and shame of Afro hair.
We have never had the chance to know ourselves outside of the framework of commodity, our identities have been rushed to erasure by the dominant culture, and in that rush our bodies have become vacant, tired temples, that we are just to overwhelmed and rushed to care for. We have been in survival mode for far to long and our hair is telling all our truths.
Limt(us) is the restoration of slow, intention and care to our bodies, it is the acknowledgement that our hair reflects the sacred spiral of spirit. Afro hair is our direct indicator of the ongoing harm that our bodies continue to endure as a part of the colonial system. Embodiment is the first key to liberation. If you are willing to rush to care of you, who and what fills that vacancy, and what happens as a result?
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After the tour and upon reflection, Curry realized that the work of Black Beauty School was still positioning the Black body as commodity.
The energy of the class was created and sustained by the panels of models that was being pulled from each cities body of water. The hairstylists cared little about the equity of Afrikan peoples they just wanted a new pool in which to profit from.
Wave 3
Flo(at)
Flow at
Flow in
Flow through
- Afro hair as Litm(us) indicator of health and antenna for external atmosphere
- Q&A about Afro haircare and body care
- Identity Politics - "I am not my hair" is a spell for coloniality not a flex for personal empowerment.
- Colonial Wild Fire (speed with no end) vs Indigenous Wildfire (sacred speed slow and with pace, restoration of memory, reverse osmo(cis).
Wave 4
The Baptism - plan of action for fostering and sustaining Afrikan embodiment and identity.
Landing Ashore: Wata(rings) Afro Hair Community Circles
where 3 or more are gathered (non religiously)
How do we meet the needs of the community consistently without spending?
What ways can salons take up more space for the Afrikan communities that aren't centering profit only?
Who are the persons you can begin to build trust and community with by creating a wata(ring) - a community circle for the expression of sacred rituals for embodiment?
This is our reparations to us, where we can tender deeply restorative and intimate (platonic) care rituals to one another's scalp and hair.
Response and water way canal for the record.
How do we bridge over troubled wata's?
How do the s(hells) I create for myself keep me from connection and ultimately my care for myself first, which then extends to my care of others?
How can my internal flow and natural wattage help to sustain someone else's body of wata and vice versa?
How to restore tr(u)st between one another?
How do we create our own ebb & flow separate of capitalism and coloniality that allows us to restore power to our communities?
Where we can tender deeply restorative and intimate (platonic) care rituals to one another's scalp and hair. This is our reparations to us.
What are the new rituals programmed by ancient ancestral Afro hair cosmology that we can create and sustain consistently?
If my body has not been sanctified, holy and cared for by me, how can I have that expectation of others for my body, without the loss of my soul and body to commodity?
If I refuse to know, understand, and care for my hair and body; what does that say about me?
If my body has not been sanctified, holy and cared for by me, how can I have that expectation of others for my body, without the loss of my soul and body to commodity?
If I refuse to know, understand, and care for my hair and body; what does that say about me?