{"id":1008,"date":"2022-09-14T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:40:06","slug":"hair-is-political-exploring-bald-is-beautiful-day-and-afro-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/hair-is-political-exploring-bald-is-beautiful-day-and-afro-day\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hair is Political&#8217;: Exploring &#8220;Bald is Beautiful Day&#8221; and &#8220;Afro Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 13th and September 14th are both days where we can think about hair (or lack thereof)! Our class discussed &#8216;Bald is Beautiful&#8217; Day and why some people may not have hair. We learned that some people shave their hair for religious reasons or when grieving, some people feel more comfortable\/confident bald, some people lose their hair as a result of chemotherapy or alopecia, and some people may lose their hair as they age or due to stress, pregnancy, or medications\/health.<\/p>\n<p>The video below is an interview between a person with alopecia and kids of different ages. Feel free to watch to learn more about how alopecia can impact someone&#8217;s identity, health, etc.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kids Meet a Person with Alopecia | Kids Meet | HiHo Kids\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-PrATHChoTM?start=334&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We also explored the origins of &#8216;Afro Day&#8217;! We learned that an afro hairstyle is one of many culturally-significant hairstyles. Below, the Guinness World Record holder for &#8216;largest afro&#8217; discusses how her hair helps her feel connected to her Black heritage:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Largest Afro - Guinness World Records\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DE4rjBSLaNY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We will continue to explore how our hair can represent our culture, identity, and history this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 13th and September 14th are both days where we can think about hair (or lack thereof)! Our class discussed &#8216;Bald is Beautiful&#8217; Day and why some people may not have hair. We learned that some people shave their hair for religious reasons or when grieving, some people feel more comfortable\/confident bald, some people lose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/hair-is-political-exploring-bald-is-beautiful-day-and-afro-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Hair is Political&#8217;: Exploring &#8220;Bald is Beautiful Day&#8221; and &#8220;Afro Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}