We Are Spiraling
Hosted by Priya and Mayura · Priya Anand
4.7from 89 ratings
- 24
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 89
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About We Are Spiraling
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.
- Publisher
- Priya Anand
- Category
- arts · business · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 24 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Are So Many People Secretly Curly? (Refresh)
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How The Word Frizz Is Weaponized Against Curly People
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Curly Hair Has Always Been Poetry
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Why Are So Many People Secretly Curly? (Refresh)
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I certainly researched those topics in writing the books. So where did this idea come from that curly hair is messy or unprofessional? This is something that I've heard from countless women. Where did this idea come from? Well, can we back up to where curly hair and straight hair came from originally? As we know, humans first arrived on our planet in Africa. It was very hot there. So curly hair had an air conditioning effect on the head. Wait, explain what you mean by that. Curly hair had an air conditioning effect on the head. Well, it allowed the air to come in and cool their scalps, basically. […]
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- 20 ratings
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Priya and Mayura host the show. Published by Priya Anand.
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