The Womanist Salon Podcast - Hot Off the Press!
Featuring Dr. Brittney Cooper
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We are pleased to share this episode of The Womanist Salon Podcast. This episode, "Hot Off the Press," features Dr. Brittney Cooper! It is one to enjoy and savor! Let us know what you think!
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TWSP Live! - Hot Off The Press featuring Dr. Brittney Cooper
Join the Hair Docs for our first live podcast show and final appointment of the year! Sunday's podcast is HOT OFF THE PRESS as we host a salon favorite and special guest in The Womanist Salon. That's right! Dr. Brittney Cooper aka Professor Crunk is in the salon. Come on in so we can talk hair and turn heads at the same time!
"Sunday by Ballpoint"
TWSP Ep3 - Snatching Edges: Lay It Down, Don’t Pull It Out!
On this episode of The Womanist Salon Podcast, The Hair Docs are talking all about Snatching Edges! Now you know good and well that you want to protect your edges at all cost. You need your edges. From conversations that bring Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Malcom X, Meg the Stallion and Breonna Taylor together, the Hair Docs are ready to lay your edges with care. What are the various ways that we can protect the edges, baby hairs, and peach fuzz, of Black Women? You're in the right place. So come on in, take a seat, and let the Hair Docs freshen you up.
"Sunday by Ballpoint"
TWSP Ep2 - Sitting Between The Knees: Work What Your Mama Gave You!
Show Notes
Sitting between our mother’s knees getting our hair done was a time when lots of information, knowledge, and coded talk was passed along to black girl children about beauty, womanhood, self-esteem, self-love, and self-protection. Lots of policing our appearance, speech, and sexuality with pressure to be good girls, respectable ladies – not the kind who makes the rest of us “look bad.” Getting and keeping our hair “fixed” or “done” was our first and most important strategy as girls on how to avoid the racist, classist, and sexist stereotypes other people might put us into.
Before all that wisdom and knowledge could be passed along, there was the detangling process. A black girl’s hair has to be detangled before it can put back right. Many Black women have experienced the horrific childhood moments of sitting in between our mother’s legs as she combed through our hair which involved lots of tugging, tears, and even a few love touches to the head. Detangling. Deconstructing. Decolonizing. Demythologizing. Demystifying. Breaking stuff down. Hair texture mattered, but what we now know is that product and the proper tools matter too. You learn that if you have the right -- detangling moisturizer, the proper brush and comb-- and patience, detangling becomes a breeze! In this episode, the hair docs specialize in the ministry of detangling the politics of Black hair for Black women facing the double bind of caring for their hair and resisting hair discrimination. (Intro/Outro Music provided by Epidemic Sound: Sunday by Ballpoint)