ITYC Audio Journal #1:"Dear Black Women Giving Me Hair Advice About My African Daughter: Please Stop"

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Nestled among last Friday's 5 was a piece called Dear Black Women Giving Me Hair Advice about My African Daughter: Please Stop.  This story instantly affected me so I decided to take a moment to reflect upon exactly what troubled me about the article. After some thought, I put together this audio journal with my observations. The entire journal clocks in at about thirty-minutes, but in the future they will be shorter-about fifteen to twenty minutes max. The intro and outro music you hear in the audio journal is a track by Morsa called "Expectation" from the Free Music Archive.

In the journal I reference: Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharps of My American Melting Pot and a piece called Beauty Whitewashed: How White Ideals Exclude Women of Color on the site Beauty Redefined.  I also talk about this Colorlines piece by Ayana Byrd about Gabourey Sidibe's Elle cover last year.

Finally, I couldn't find that Watch What Happens live clip with Ellen Barkin and NeNe Leakes that I mentioned. It's out there somewhere on-demand perhaps. Bravo will probably repeat the episode at some point as well.

Listen to the audio journal here or in the player below.

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