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  • I confess happily that as I scanned pages and pages of letters of comment ( "locs"), my eye instinctively scanned for my own name, as it did forty years ago, and when I found it (Blish dismissing one of my locs), I felt the same flash of recognition, embarrassment and egoboo that I felt then; much muted, to be sure, diluted, but still there.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • More black women are opting to go natural, with styles ranging from afros of varying lengths to braids to locs to hair straightened with heat rather than sodium hydroxide and other chemicals.

    More black women embracing beauty of natural hair 2011

  • So its possible that there are a whole bunch of Na'vi w/locs that would make Sister Carol proud.

    an early morning rant. just because. 2010

  • Creating Dark Matter: An Interview with Sheree Renée Thomas if you havent read the dark matter anthologies, you have seriously missed something. and arent her locs fabu?

    ooh!!! karnythia 2009

  • Why would I switch from $17.00 core - locs to $50.00 mrx's just to shoot a deer??

    Ignoring the Lead Ban 2009

  • If the day comes when they can actually tell box braids from two strand twists from locs without needing a zoological guide, will they finally be able to relax?

    summertime update. 2009

  • Why would I switch from $17.00 core - locs to $50.00 mrx's just to shoot a deer??

    Ignoring the Lead Ban 2009

  • He reasoned further that a film, for example, about people with locs doing their hair "with shampoo and beeswax" couldn't compete with the footage, much of it a spectacle, that he and director Jeff Stilson have gathered for Good Hair.

    Relax and Get Good Hair 2010

  • That testament about our lack of empowerment is delivered full blast while there is little acknowledgment of the African American resistance to a European beauty standard, or our embracing of our own curls, waves, naps, braids and locs.

    Relax and Get Good Hair 2010

  • That testament about our lack of empowerment is delivered full blast while there is little acknowledgment of the African American resistance to a European beauty standard, or our embracing of our own curls, waves, naps, braids and locs.

    Esther Iverem: Relax and Get Good Hair 2010

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