From the Root
Subtitle: Hair
By: edited by Whitney French and Josiane Anthony H.
Publisher: The editors
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 49
Subjects: Hair; Minority women; Social conditions
Description: Whitney French and Josiane Anthony  H compile poems, photographs, quotations, paintings, and prints by Canadian Black women for this zine dedicated to Black natural hair. The content is divided into four parts, "her power is in her hair," "I am  a traveller on a  quest," "as if I forget my roots," and  "don't edit your exotic." There is a note from  each  editor as well as short biographies about the contributors who are identified as Trinidadian, Asian, Persian, Central Asian, mixed race, Cherokee, Jamaican, and Ghanaian ancestry.
Notes: Purchased from ; the editors at the NYC Feminist Zine Fest 2015.
Table of contents: title: Editors' notes   -- Whitney French and Josiane Anthony H; title: Her power is in her hair --; title: Don't touch my fucking hair  -- Afuwa; title: Hairography  -- Sharrae Lyon; title: Crown and armour  -- Rampage!; title: Still too white  -- Cicely Blain; title: Fresh cut  -- Whitney French; title: Unleashed  -- Shenir Jammohamed; title: I am a Traveller on a Quest --; title: Medusa of Jamdown  -- Afuwa; title: How my memories take root  -- Kemba King; title: Coils of authenticity  -- Medgine Mathurin; title: My body is a grassland  -- Janice Lee; title: The headwraps headshots  -- Fonna Seidu; title: Beauty out of bondage  -- Shekeyra Pinnock; title: As if I forgot my roots  --; title: Texture of bravery  -- Lamoi Simmonds; title: Aspirations of beauty  -- Zainab Amadahy; title: Natural before the trend  -- Third Eye Visionary; title: Natural strength  -- Shakeyra Pinnock; title: Don't edit your exotic  --; title: Own it  -- Sydonne Dunkley; title: Adat  -- Banoo Zan; title: Ethnic eyebrows  -- Kanwal Rahim; title: My hair is not exotic! It's just hair  -- Cassandra London; title: From the root call out: issue #2 BODY  --; title: Contributors bios --