Hot Combs and Kitchens: Black Hair in Pop Culture

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Join us as we share our hair inspirations, awkward hair-related interactions, handling major hairstyle changes, and Black hair stereotypes we would like to get rid of through a lens of memorable scenes from How to Get Away with Murder, Girlfriends, Sons of Anarchy, Waiting to Exhale, and Something New.  Of course, no timely discussion of Black hair would be complete without unpacking the mistreatment of Gabrielle Union during her stint on America's Got Talent.

We recorded the episode before the holiday, so consider our well wishes for a great holiday an early gift for the 2020 holiday season (instead of a belated wish for 2019).  :-)

Content/Trigger Warning:  Our discussion of How to Get Away with Murder contains references to incest and sexual assault, which may be triggering to survivors.  Please reach out to RAINN at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) for support.  Click here or here http://www.ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html for international resources.

Links to ish we mentioned:

• Aunt Maxine’s speech before her historic impeachment vote.
• B. Scott’s website, love muffin!

Pop culture prompts from our discussion (where available):

• Viola Davis/Cicely Tyson HTGAWM scene.
• Toni’s boyfriend tells all of her hair business on Girlfriends. 
• Do not touch Annalise Keating’s hair!
• Bernadine’s big chop from Waiting to Exhale. 
• The trope from Something New that we would like to end forever.
• The unforgettable HTGAWM moment in which Annalise takes off her wig and confronts her husband about finding his penis on a dead woman’s phone.

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