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We talk about curly hair to learn more about our culture — from how we perceive ourselves to how the world sees us.
Priya Anand, an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in Bloomberg, Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed and Politico, turns her investigative eye to her lifelong obsession: curly hair.
You might think: curly hair, how much is there to say?
A whole podcast dedicated to this? I don’t want to hear someone ramble about all their hair lotions and potions!
But there is so much to unravel about why so many people hide their ringlets as secret curlies, how politicians who wear their hair curly are vilified and what Hollywood's hostility toward curls means for our society.
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Aphrodite: curly hair. Zeus: curly hair. The statue of David: curly hair. Ancient Greeks and Romans knew what we know on this show: curly hair is worth obsessing over. We talk to Janet Stephens, the world’s foremost expert on ancient Greek and Roman hairstyles and why curly hair was prized. Subscribe to our Substack for photos of these styles and how to recreate them. Subscribe to our Substack: WeAreSpiraling.com Follow Priya on Instagram and Tiktok MAYURA waitlist and Instagram This show ...
In movies, the only people with curly hair are often weirdos or witches. Seinfeld icon and 87-year-old TikTok sensation Annie Korzen unpacks how biases affected her career and continue to influence culture. Subscribe to our Substack: WeAreSpiraling.com Follow Priya on Instagram and Tiktok MAYURA waitlist and Instagram This show is also on Instagram.
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, explains the role her curly hair has played in her life and political career – from the pressure to change it to how opponents have used it as a hook for vicious insults. Subscribe to our Substack: WeAreSpiraling.com Follow Priya on Instagram and Tiktok MAYURA waitlist and Instagram This show is also on Instagram.
People go to great lengths to hide their curls, either through straightening or buzz cuts. We investigate why. Subscribe to our Substack: WeAreSpiraling.com Follow Priya on Instagram and Tiktok MAYURA waitlist and Instagram This show is also on Instagram.
A reporter who covered startups for a decade starts her own: the curly hair care product line she’s always wanted. This show investigates curly hair in our culture. Subscribe to our Substack: WeAreSpiraling.com Follow Priya on Instagram and Tiktok MAYURA waitlist and Instagram This show is also on Instagram.
We talk about curly hair to learn more about our culture — from how we perceive ourselves to how the world sees us. Subscribe to our Substack: WeAreSpiraling.com Follow Priya on Instagram and Tiktok MAYURA waitlist and Instagram This show is also on Instagram.
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