Detangling the roots and health risks of hair relaxers for Black hair
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Oct 20, 2023 ·
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In this reflective and personal episode of https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/detangling-the-roots-and-health-risks-of-hair-relaxers, Prof. Cheryl Thompson of Toronto Metropolitan University and author of https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/B/Beauty-in-a-Box untangles the wending history of hair relaxers for Black women —...
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In this reflective and personal episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, Prof. Cheryl Thompson of Toronto Metropolitan University and author of Beauty in a Box untangles the wending history of hair relaxers for Black women — and the health risks now linked to them.
For decades, Black women have been using hair relaxers to help them “fit into” global mainstream workplaces and the European standards of beauty that continue to dominate them. More recently, research has linked these relaxers to cancer and reproductive health issues — and a spate of lawsuits across the United States, and at least one in Canada, have been brought by Black women against the makers of these relaxants.
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For decades, Black women have been using hair relaxers to help them “fit into” global mainstream workplaces and the European standards of beauty that continue to dominate them. More recently, research has linked these relaxers to cancer and reproductive health issues — and a spate of lawsuits across the United States, and at least one in Canada, have been brought by Black women against the makers of these relaxants.
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