Stop Hair Discrimination

Stop Hair Discrimination

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via Change.org/StopHairDiscrimination by petition starter James Emmanuel

 

Australian private schools still enforce uniform policies that make it hard to be Black. Throughout my senior schooling years, I was continually forced to shave my natural Afro hair, and protective styles (braids, cornrows, twists, buns & dreadlocks) were banned, outlawed as “extreme hairstyles”. Erasure of African culture and identity should not be an additional cost to attending an independent school in Australia.

I am calling on education ministers in each state and territory, particularly NSW Minister of Education Sarah Mitchell, to listen during this time of Black amplification. Do the right ...

via Change.org/StopHairDiscrimination by petition starter James Emmanuel

 

Australian private schools still enforce uniform policies that make it hard to be Black. Throughout my senior schooling years, I was continually forced to shave my natural Afro hair, and protective styles (braids, cornrows, twists, buns & dreadlocks) were banned, outlawed as “extreme hairstyles”. Erasure of African culture and identity should not be an additional cost to attending an independent school in Australia.

I am calling on education ministers in each state and territory, particularly NSW Minister of Education Sarah Mitchell, to listen during this time of Black amplification. Do the right thing, and make it illegal for schools’ uniform policies to discriminate against students' natural Afro hair.

Private school uniforms are unregulated under NSW’s Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 - SECT 17 Education. Meaning students of African Diaspora are not explicitly protected, allowing racism to exist under the disguise of grooming codes and white professionalism, in non-government schools.


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Email Mark Speakman

Today, it’s #WorldAfroDay, a global day of change to celebrate Afro hair, culture and identity. It is a day to raise awareness and normalise Afro hair as part of our society.

Australian private schools still enforce uniform policies that make it hard to be Black - that must stop now.   

Right now, can you email NSW Attorney General to explicitly protect Black students under the Anti-Discriminatory Act?

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