HeyJaredTalking Locs
Locitude is the platform for people with authentic locs; through our hair studio, products, events, content, education and podcast, we serve! Ade Balogun, Chief Loc Officer at Locitude hosts the Talking Locs podcast.
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E.51 Locs Through History: Before the Name ‘Locs’ (opens the original)
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Before the term "dreadlocks" was imposed by colonial lenses, locked hair served as a profound expression of culture, spiritual devotion, and social identity across the African continent. In this premiere episode of our investigative mini-series, we explore what locs signified long before outside definitions disrupted our original meanings. We examine hair as an encoded language—a marker of rites of passage, social rank, and memory—and discuss how colonization criminalized and erased these practi
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