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By coléa henderson - May 11, 2015

A few weeks ago I performed for the first time at Charlotte StoryTeller's first ever StorySlam. The two pieces I performed were written by me.

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Good Hair

By Coléa Henderson - May 14, 2011

I just finished watching a documentary by Chris Rock called Good Hair. It was a sincere look into the world of 'black hair'; it looked into relaxers (sodium hydroxide used to straighten hair) and weave (hair sewn/glued in), primarily, but also talked about other types of hair treatment and sources. The film was very informative for me as I have never gotten a lot of that stuff figured out, there's a lot of stuff out there. The documentary's sole purpose wasn't to inform the public of the extents black women go to to have their hair look good, it was more about the thought, heart, behind it. The term 'good hair' is something I've heard my whole life, it essentially means that the hair looks healthy straightened and is 'easy' to style like a white person's hair. Not "nappy". Growing up I had 'bad' hair because it wasn't relaxed/straitened. I wore braids and cornrows (see below) from the time I was 3 until I was 15...

What I have learned about being a teacher from God

By Coléa Henderson - December 28, 2011

I have learned to not have favorite students. It's clear that God has favorites by the way He treats us all with no equality. My family and I aren't on His favorite list and it's rotten. I'm not gonna do that to my students, I'm not going to make some feel like I like them and some feel like I couldn't care less about them. It's not fair and I want to be just. God's Favorites: He always provides for what they need, He never takes away anyone they care about, He gives them what they want when they want it most of the time. God's Non-Favorites: He doesn't provide for them consistently so they have have to work 12/6 to barely pay the minimum on the bills while they watch others have more than enough without even trying, He goes long periods of time not talking to His children that He says He loves, He continually breaks them letting things get worse with no break or explanation, He let's them get their hope up only to smack it out of the...

MM

By Coléa Henderson - July 10, 2012

No, not the Mickey Mouse Club or the chocolate candies. Magic Mike. Yea, I said it. Yea, I saw it. Am I embarrassed/have regrets? No. Did I enjoy it? Umm, yea. I've heard lots of reactions about the movie; and being in the Bible Belt, a lot of them have been on the hostile, antagonistic side. This isn't a post defending my seeing it. I'm an adult who can see whatever the hell I want. It's more of a response, that'll probably get some flack, to people's reaction to the movie and the movie goers. My friends and I scored some free tickets for an early showing. I think we saw it over a week early. Basically, we'll see pretty much any movie for free, so that played a huge part in our viewing of it. Yes, there was nudity in the movie, no actual penises but there was plenty of man butt. There was also some female nudity, I think I saw a total of four to six breasts. The movie, however, was not ab...