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Combing Through Black Beauty Culture COMIC RELIEF: JULIE DOUCET | COLTEN BOUSHIE INSPIRES FILM Spring 2020 | Vol. 34 No. 1 COMBINGCOMBING THROUGH THROUGH BLACKBLACK BEAUTYBEAUTY CULTURECULTURE THE WITCHY POLITICS OF TAROT $6.75 CAD/USD Publications Mail Agreement No. 40008866 Aren’t they worth it? Canadian families spend almost one-quarter of their income on child care. Enough is enough. We need affordable, accessible, quality child care for all. PSAC Full Fall-17.indd 1 2017-08-18 10:36 AM SPRING 2020 | VOLUME 34 NO. 1 news HOW KENYAN GIRLS CHANGED THIER WORLD . 6 by Amanda Le Rougetel NEEDS OF YOUNG WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES OVERLOOKED . 7 by Sandhya Singh FILM EXPLORES LEGACY OF COLTEN BOUSHIE . 9 by Doreen Nicoll 9 features COMBING THROUGH BLACK BEAUTY CULTURE . 12 Black hair is political. Whether it’s intention- ally worn as a political statement, or it becomes political based on assumptions of a white- dominant culture, Black hair is never just hair. Cheryl Thompson’s book Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture is a fascinating story of history, culture 16 and Black feminist politics. by Cicely-Belle Blain WITCHES OF THE WORLD UNITE . 16 There’s a witchy aesthetic sweeping through feminist circles, and according to astrologers, tarot practitioners and members of a witch collective, it’s no surprise, given these times of impending climate crisis and ever-expanding enclosures of capitalism. by Andi Schwartz DIRTY PLOTTE . 22 The Frenetic Feminism of Julie Doucet Quebec comic creator Julie Doucet has carved out a legacy as an artist who kicked open doors 22 to explore gender and satirize social taboos. by Nyala V. 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Originally is a writer, editor liberation activist. from Guyana, Sandhya makes and Gender and her home in Ottawa. She writes Women’s Studies PhD candi- about a new study on girls and date. Her writing has appeared LIANNE young women with disabilities in in Xtra, Herizons, GUTS, Flare, LEDDY this issue. Shameless and more. She lives Lianne Leddy in Toronto with her fur babies, (Anishinaabe) Franny and Zooey. Don’t miss is an assistant DOREEN her article on feminism, tarot and professor of Indigenous studies NICOLL magic in this issue. at Wilfrid Laurier University. She Doreen Nicoll writes about environmental and has written for gender issues as they pertain to The Anvil, Raise BONNIE Indigenous communities. You can the Hammer, Rabble and NOW SHERR KLEIN read Lianne’s column “Giving Birth Magazine. A high school teacher, Bonnie Klein is a While Indigenous” on page 5. 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Nyala’s CUTLER work has been published in the Wendy Judith Winnipeg Free Press and on the Cutler is a teacher, CICELY-BELLE Eisner-nominated online magazine writer and lesbian-feminist BLAIN Women Write About Comics. activist residing on Salt Spring Cicely Belle Blain Island (Tsawout First Nation). is a diversity She co-authored Writing Alone and inclusion SANDHYA Together: Journalling in a Circle of consultant, activist and writer. A SINGH Women for Creativity, Compassion co-founder of Black Lives Matter Sandhya Singh and Connection and contributed Vancouver, Cicely-Belle’s work is a freelance to and edited Finding Home: is informed by their professional writer, editor and Collected Stories of Salt Spring and academic background and communications consultant. She Island Circles of Women. HERIZONS SPRING 2020 3 Isn’t it about time you subscribed to Herizons? 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