I'm a happily nappy African American mom of two biracial children. Glad to see you here. Come on in, have a seat, and I’ll fix you a tall glass of iced tea. Let’s talk about this thing called a nappy kitchen.Site Upgrade
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What I Learned from Sonny Chiba
I bought a 3-disc Bruce Lee DVD about a year ago. One of the disc contained three 1970’s movies starring a Japanese actor named Sonny Chiba. Chiba plays Takuma (Terry in the English dub) Tsurugi. These movies were The Street Fighter, Return of the Street Fighter, and Sister Street Fighter.
They were chock full of violence and gore.
In Defense of the N-Word, Part III
What you must understand, especially for your daughter’s sake, is that naps are nothing to be ashamed of. My children are Biracial. My daughter is 1 year old. She has big Caucasian-like curls. Do you know there are people close to us who are holding their breath, praying that her hair does not ‘turn nappy‘?
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In Defense of the N-Word, Part II
My non-Black mommy friends think of nappy as any type of hair that is not immediately identifable as Caucasian. If pregnant with a boy, many of them breath a sigh of relief saying, “Thank goodness it’s a boy, I can just cut his hair short and run a brush over it. I don’t know what I would do with a girl’s hair.”
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In Defense of the N-Word, Part I
No, not THAT N-word. The other N-word — nappy. I’ve been often asked why I chose to call this site ‘Nappy‘ Kitchen. Why not ‘natural kitchen’ or ‘napptural kitchen’ or something of a similar favor.
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