Bibliographic record
Abstract
'da Kink in my hair: voices of black womyn. trey anthony. Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2005.60 pp. $15.95 sc. In an early moment in 'da Kink in my hair, Enid, expressing her desire for love-or at least a man to share her sweet potato pie with--asks, Can I get a witness? (p. 32). This seemingly simple request--that a black woman have her story heard--lies at the heart of 'da Kink as a social text; it is a request that has been answered enthusiastically over and over again since the play's first production in 2001. Since then spectators have been bearing witness to the congregation of black women who gather at a West Indian salon in Toronto in 'da Kink. This November the play will begin its first overseas run at London's Hackney Empire Theatre. More locally, Global Television plans to produce a series based on the play next year. 'da Kink has been a success since its premiere at the Toronto Fringe Festival, at which it outsold all other shows, was the Toronto Sun's Pick of the Fringe, and was honoured with a Critic's pick by Now Magazine. When performed at Theatre Passe Muraille two years later, it received the highest box office sales in the theatre's history. The play even triumphed commercially in January 2005 when it was selected by Mirvish Productions as the first Canadian play to be produced at the Princess of Wales Theatre, and the six-week run was extended for four months. 'da Kink follows a day in the life of hairdresser Novelette. While she colours and cuts their hair, she convinces women to have the courage to change their hairstyles. Her customers, the black women of her community, open up to Novelette while sitting in her chair. As she says: If you want to know a woman, a black woman, that is, touch her hair. Cause our hair carries our journey (p. 5). Throughout the play, Novelette's wise-cracking commentary and her conversations with the women in her salon are interspersed with their individual monologues: there is Patsy, a Christian woman whose son was the victim of gun violence; Sherelle, a businesswoman exhausted by her life in a white man's club; Enid, the widow who seduces the man next door; Sharmaine, an actress whose homosexuality led to her estrangement from her mother; young Stacey-Anne and her heartbreaking memoir of immigration to Canada and sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather; and lastly there is Nia, preparing for the funeral of her mother who privileged her sister because her baby could easily pass for White (p. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".