MANE MAN is an online lifestyle guide for men to discuss everything from hair to shaving, health and style. The site began as an off shoot of the natural hair movement and is meant to encourage men of all races and ages to share their experiences to find support for both hair and non-hair related issues. The website started after I decided to grow out my hair for the first time and experienced some emotional and physical changes. And, there are some pretty funny stories of my fro bouncing around the city that I now call home!
I am a graduate of Teachers College Columbia University and hold masters degrees in psychological counseling. In both my professional and personal experiences I have witnessed how one’s image has distinct implications for one’s self esteem. As men we don’t discuss this stuff as much, so I hope you can learn some of what I have learned along the way. Comments are strongly encouraged. Send in your ideas and join the discussion!
Great posts…..nice blog you have here!
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment. Your blog and your hair are both awesome!
I’m enjoying your topics!
I saw you on CurlyNikki a few weeks ago. Love your blog! Keep up the good work
Thanks Sham!
great blog, mane man!!
Thanks!
Your blog and your hair is awesome
I can’t believe that I am just running across this blog now, wow, this is wonderful! I just wanted to introduce myself, my name is Myrtie and I’m a recent graduate from Northwestern University in Chicago. I’m planning to go to grad school in a year or so to study African American studies and continue my research project on the online natural hair movement. Mostly I study the ways the experience of wearing natural hair allows black women (and black men!) from all over the world to form points of mutual identification and provides an avenue to develop networks of transnational communication. I’m so glad that I found you and this blog! I’ve been looking out to include different aspects of the male perspective and here it is in a really sophisticated an accessible way! Thanks for all that you’ve been doing.
Right now, since I’m still in the gathering information stages of my research I would love to connect with you to learn more about your experiences and to get your perspective on some of my research topics. I’m sure that you’re busy so if you ever have a bit of free time I would love to hear from you!
Myrtie
http://www.applepieflye.com (while I research blogs for my work I am definitely not a blogger up to any sort of caliber, but this is my feeble attempt at blogging, so please feel free to check it out!)