Teaser for 'Bad Hair'

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In this horror satire set in 1989, Bad Hair follows an ambitious young woman who gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career comes at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.

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[pivotandsway]

i'm tired of black men making media about black women's hair, and tbh anyone who's not a black woman least of all justin simien. something about weaves being demonic sounds like women's business to me and looking at the tweet reviews, the black female critics that saw it at sundance were not impressed. black men have said enough about what we do with our hair to last a lifetime. i don't like scary movies anyway tho so i wouldn't have watched it anyway lol

[h_wyatt]

Yeah... While I understand the many layered and nuanced problems regarding black women and "reliance" weave, there is something very... off? about this project.

Granted, I am only going off the trailer but from my observation the conversation about weave always focuses why black women "cannot let go of the weave" and never really centers on the microaggressions we face when wearing our natural hair and pressures to conform. Esp if you work in a corporate environment. I can count on one hand how many times I have worn weave in my life. And I have been relaxer free longer than I have been relaxed so its not as if I am getting defensive about my own hair styles. Its just that when you repeatedly hear "You sure wear your hair like that more often" when I blowout my hair versus when I wear it kinky... It makes you wonder how much this is black women's insistence on wearing weaves and how much is it society telling us we NEED weave?

I do not even know if any of that made sense. It sounded brilliant in my head.

[pivotandsway]

Girl it's ok bc I'm about to ramble lol. I assume they will go into that dynamic. I believe gets a weave because her boss tells her to (or something like that). White supremacy has always controlled the boundaries of what is respectable and desirable, especially in corporate spaces. It doesn't really matter if we personally insist on one thing or the other even with legislation, because people are always going to prejudge us based on the hue of our skin, our weight, our hair and treat us accordingly. And if you know wearing a weave gets you better treatment, well who could blame you for getting one if that wasn't your initial inclination. It's a feedback loop, feeding internalized antiblackness and misogynoir existing in a society fueled by those things. There's a lot going on. My thing is this is a very nuanced subject about something very personal to Black women, and I do not think Justin has the range, no matter how many Black women he talked to (including Lena Waithe... 😑) who are not formally credited for whatever contributions

[h_wyatt]

No you articulated exactly what I could not about why I thought this project was "off." It feels less like a confession, wherein the persons who experience it are reflecting on the emotions, trauma, processes, and "stuff" personally, and more like a science experiment, wherein a bystander is replicating the experience based on what he has observed or experienced second/third hand. Rather than saying "This is me, this my experience, let me share," its "This is an algamation of what I have heard and been told, let me pull that together into a story that is shaped by my own lens and share."

There is a lack of authenticity, a lack of personal knowledge, a lack of sensitivity, and a lack just getting it.

[pivotandsway]

right like i've seen dear white people.... but yeah i'm really not trying to sound separatist or whatever but it's like can't you leave us alone for 5 seconds please this is not a zoo exhibition. like that year when every day there was an article about black women being the least desirable out of everybody like d*mn we get it. especially going on twitter and seeing men constantly bashing black women for every little thing and you know black twitter is going to run with this with gifs and memes etc. i'll probably end up watching it just to know what everyone is talking about lmao like that week birdbox came out was annoying

[sparklytootsie]

yes, also it looks goofy

[analievelyn]

i already know im going to love this thread. im not here for Black men doing this shit.

[pivotandsway]

lmao! at least he means well and isn't trying to intentionally mock us 🙃

[helders]

Your comments have been spot on and great. Thank you.

[pivotandsway]

lol thank you <3 i just say stuff