No. You cannot touch my hair! | Mena Fombo

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Uninvited hair touching, an issue that primarily affects Black women and girls, is an invasion of personal space. To raise awareness of "hair attacks," activist Mena Fombo started the "No, You Cannot Touch My Hair" campaign, showing how unwanted hair touching is an issue that has been and still is rooted in racism. She shares three steps to end this invasive behavior and move toward a world that respects everyone's bodily autonomy.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.9	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.7	Hair, the way we wear it and the differences in our hair is a serious subject tied into
0:19.5	our bodily autonomy.
0:21.7	Meeta Fombo heads a campaign called No You Cannot Touch My Hair.
0:26.6	In her 2017 talk from Ted Ex Bristol, she asks us to reflect on the history and politics
0:32.1	of hair and how to forge a way for a more equitable, inclusive future.
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1:10.4	Let's play a game.
1:11.9	Meeta says clap once.
1:14.3	Great, well done.
1:16.5	Meeta says, high five someone next to you.
1:19.7	I launched the No You Cannot Touch My Hair campaign survey in the summer of 2017.
1:25.6	Just under half of the respondents said they had their hair touched on a monthly basis
1:30.0	by people they've never met before.
1:33.1	And within that, 18% said it happened once a week.
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