We Are Spiraling

Priya Anand

Topics: Fashion & Beauty · Society & Culture · Entrepreneurship

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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...

Latest episodeA Curly Reporter Starts A New Investigation (Refresh + New Notes)October 29, 2026 · 22 min

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Latest episodes

1. A Curly Reporter Starts A New Investigation (Refresh + New Notes)October 29, 2026 · 22 min
2. Comedian Sindhu Vee Dumped A Guy Who Called Her Hair WildOctober 22, 2026 · 56 min
3. Why Are So Many People Secretly Curly? (Refresh)October 15, 2026 · 23 min
4. How The Word Frizz Was Weaponized Against Curly PeopleOctober 1, 2026 · 9 min
5. From Rumi To Today, Curly Hair Has Always Been PoetrySeptember 17, 2026 · 6 min
6. Hair Is Political: Meet the Lawmaker Putting Hair on the AgendaAugust 27, 2026 · 24 min
7. How'd You Find This Podcast?August 13, 2026 · 8 min
8. Why Are So Many People Secretly Curly: Part 2: Office EditionJuly 31, 2026 · 7 min
9. How Your Hair Changes With Your HormonesJuly 23, 2026 · 37 min
10. 'The Odyssey" Got Hair Wrong Vs Greek MythologyJuly 16, 2026 · 6 min

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