"I Am My Hair"

We don’t talk about hair enough, not as the loaded, layered, high-stakes thing it actually is for Black women. We’ve done a lot of episodes on intersectionality, but not one on this important topic.

That’s why we’re so excited to share this rich conversation with Dr. Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, a Black mother-scholar and author of Articulations: A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education Through Black Women’s Hair Experiences.

We get into the difference between internalized racism and intentional “texturized code-switching,” the invisible labor that goes into a single workday decision, and what it actually means to be a co-conspirator instead of a well-meaning bystander.

Dr. Eghosa also unpacks her line “I am my hair.”

More from Dr. Eghosa:

• Articulations, A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy

• Articulations on Audible

• Reading Guide for Articulations

• “We Be Audacious” article

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