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“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.” — John Berger

Jan 02

Calls for writers, journalist and essayist to contribute to the soon to launch online journal…

This 2013 Get Perspective blog is intending to expand into an online culture studies journal, piloting the project on WordPress!

In keep with our core aim of encouraging critical thinking by deconstructing political, social & cultural messages to provide an engaging perspective & incite debates. The online journal will be more diverse in the subject matters covered, it will also house and supporting other writers with similar interests and varied areas of expertise.

In this Get Perspective Journal intends to reach and intrigue the minds of a vast and broad audience from all backgrounds, from teens to adults. With its content ranging from easy reads to academic pieces all written by professional and amateur writers, journalist and essayist.

Intending to launch early March 2013, Get Perspective Journal are looking for writers, journalist and essayist to contribute to its content. We also welcome volunteers to join and support our team in a variety of roles such as Editors, Feature Editors, Administrators, etc.

If you would be interested in contributing either as a team member or writer, click Join Us for further details & instructions how to apply.

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Dec 26

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Dec 20

Huffington Post UK Claims Afro Hair Makes Black Women Fat, There’s Been A Study Apparently!

Huffington Post UK declares that “40% of African-American women avoid exercise because of concerns about their hairstyle, a study has found”.

According to the article a recently published study in America has identified that 40% of African American women purposely avoid exercise to maintain their costly hair styles. The study which used (only) 103 African American women participates between the ages of 21 to 60, consisted of a 40 question questionnaire and was led by dermatologist Dr Amy McMichael.

It was mentioned early on the article that the study is said to ‘fuel concerns about the obesity epidemic in the United States.’ Though what ‘concerns’ this study actually fuels the article (I believe) is intentionally ambiguous. Considering the article focuses solely on African American women surely this would imply that this group/race of people are potentially at the bulk of this epidemic.

It was irresponsible of the article to imply that a greater reason or cause of obesity exclusively within black women is down to vanity of their hair when the study quoted was far too small to confirm this. Yet the article had no problem highlighting the amount of money and time African American women spend on regularly maintaining their ‘coarser’ hair on ‘time consuming’ processes which makes their hair ‘incompatible’ with heavy exercise.
It is this tone that makes the article highly racist, since it intends to imply not only that black women’s vanity over their hair is more extreme to that of their white female counter parts but also that the very make up of their hair hinders their ability to take up exercise… (click to read full post)