'da Kink in my hair

The top and bottom margins of the cover are black. Between them is an image with a brown background: at its top in decorative type set on an arching line reads "'Da Kink in My Hair." with the subtite "voices of black womyn" in much smaller type directly below. Below that is a simple, stylized figure of a woman. Her breasts and hair dominate the image, hair orange and yellow and standing on end all around her head. Over the bottom margin reads "trey anthony" in yellow.

‘da Kink in my hair

‘da Kink in my hair

trey anthony

Playwrights Canada Press
Toronto • Canada

‘da Kink in my hair © Copyright 2001 trey anthony.

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LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

anthony, trey

‘da kink in my hair / trey anthony.

A play.

ISBN 978-0-88754-756-0

1. Women, Black--West Indies--Drama. I. Title. II. Title: Kink in my hair.

Playwrights Canada Press acknowledges that we operate on land which, for thousands of years, has been the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the New Credit, the Huron-Wendat, the Anishinaabe, Métis, and the Haudenosaunee peoples. Today, this meeting place is still home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and play here.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts—which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country—the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), Ontario Creates, and the Government of Canada for our publishing activities.

Dedication

‘da Kink is dedicated to beautiful janet…
for allowing me to always remain rooted in my truth.
Loving fiercely without conditions.

Also to my mother, grandmother, Reneé and Darren and Dad.

And to every little Black girl who has ever dreamed bigger than her circumstances.

Acknowledgements

To janet for proof-reading, inspiration, belief and love.

My family for always giving me something to write about….

Dee and V, Jean and Rachael for true friendship and helping me deal with the shit, when it is too difficult to write it down.

Thank you to Weyni Mengesha for directing the play, and bringing words from paper to life. You are an extremely talented womyn!

A special thanks to the Kink family for being patient with the process. For believing in the work when all we had was hope.

Djanet Sears for being an inspiration and role model.

To all the community radio stations, colleges, universities and media who have supported my work.

Much love to Layne Coleman and all the staff at Theatre Passe Muraille for showing us what the show could be with a budget.