Donna's Salon Utopia

A former student of mine at Seneca College is looking terrific. Her stomach has shrunk significantly after her dedication of doing 300 sit-ups a day. I found this knowledge inspiring. I was speaking to a colleague of mine who was pointing out that most people who have been trained in voice breathe from the diaphragm. Due to this fact, it develops the stomach muscles and causes a bit of a paunch. Since like my colleague, I use my voice for a living, most likely I would not ever have a female version of a washboard stomach. I would always have a bit of a paunch. I do believe this. This is fine for me. Ultimately it is healthier and improves the voice to breathe from the diaphragm.

Language and Hair Edit From: d_kakong Posted: June 17, 1999 "Nappy...kinky...dreadlocks" - do the words we use around our hair really matter? Can it be compared to the difference between black and African-Canadian, African-American? Posted by Date Posted

What Happened to the Afro? Afro Forever Research Paper for the M.A. in Media Studies at Concordia University By: Donna Kay Kakonge, M.A. Advisor: Dr. Martin Allor Committee member: Dr. Kim Sawchuk Outside Examiner: Dr. Lorna Roth @ 2006 What Happened to the Afro? Afro Forever Research Paper Intro Transformation In Loree’s Beauty Shop hot combs sizzled against wet oily scalps branding grown woman fantasies into tender young heads. Thick busy afros became long glossy black curls transforming natural Black queens into commercial mahogany princesses (Boyd, 14). This poem by Julia Boyd from In the Company of My Sisters is tragic, but it happens all the time. Afros and natural hair is transformed into something artificial, “fake boobs, fake hair, men don’t seem to care whether a woman is real or false.” The hair salon is the main site where the transformation happens. This paper accompanies the web-based project Salon Utopia (now defunct) that aimed to transform its clients in a natural way...