The Womanist Salon Podcast

Hi, we’re the hair docs! Schedule your appointment and take a seat for intergenerational, woke, womanist ”shop” (beauty shop) talk that integrates the popular, political, practical, and prophetic. This podcast plays up the hair salon as a social, secular, yet sacred point of departure for exploring Black women’s culture in the context of authentic sistahood. Welcome to the Womanist Salon with Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems, and Rev. Dr. Melanie Jones Quarles.

Episodes

TWSP Live! - Hot Off The Press featuring Dr. Brittany Cooper

December 6, 2020 • 74 mins

Join the Hair Docs for our first live podcast show and final appointment of the year! Sunday's podcast is HOT OFF THE PRESS as we host a salon favorite and special guest in The Womanist Salon. That's right! Dr. Brittany Cooper aka Professor Crunk is in the salon. Come on in so we can talk hair and turn heads at the same time! "Sunday by Ballpoint"

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TWSP Ep5 - Scratching Your Head Out: What’s Love Got To Do With It?

November 22, 2020 • 56 mins

On this episode of The Womanist Salon Podcast, the Hair Docs are ready to scratch your head out with love. That's right! Today, it's all about love. Who doesn't love a good conversation about love? From Alice Walker to Toni Morrison, to Hair Doc Renita Weems herself, the Hair Docs are taking a page from some of our favorite texts and bringing them to life in the salon. What stories of love can you share? Are you a ride or die chick...

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TWSP Ep4 - New Growth: There’s No Such Thing As A Permanent Relaxer

November 15, 2020 • 58 mins

It's time for your appointment and the Hair Docs are ready! On this episode of The Womanist Salon Podcast, we are celebrating all of the wins down at the salon. There's a new administration on the horizon as President Elect Biden and Madam Vice President Elect Kamala Devi Harris have won the 2020 US Election. That's right, the salon is buzzing with commentary as we are talking about politics from the resiliency of Black Women Vote...

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TWSP Ep3 - Snatching Edges: Lay It Down, Don’t Pull It Out!

November 8, 2020 • 55 mins

On this episode of The Womanist Salon Podcast, The Hair Docs are talking all about Snatching Edges! Now you know good and well that you want to protect your edges at all cost. You need your edges. From conversations that bring Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Malcom X, Meg the Stallion and Breonna Taylor together, the Hair Docs are ready to lay your edges with care. What are the various ways that we can protect the edges, baby hairs, ...

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TWSP Ep2 - Sitting Between The Knees: Work What Your Mama Gave You!

October 31, 2020 • 48 mins

Sitting between our mother’s knees getting our hair done was a time when lots of information, knowledge, and coded talk was passed along to black girl children about beauty, womanhood, self-esteem, self-love, and self-protection. Lots of policing our appearance, speech, and sexuality with pressure to be good girls, respectable ladies – not the kind who makes the rest of us “look bad.” Getting and keeping our hair “fixed” or “done” ...

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TWSP Ep1 - Let’s Take Your Hair Down: Who’s Been Doing Your Hair?

October 24, 2020 • 56 mins

You may recall Sesame Street and the song, “One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell which thing is not like the others by the time I finish my song?” There’s no doubt that every identifiable Black woman experiences the saliency of this song when it comes to living one’s life by comparison and embodying that difference. You have to get through our hair before you can engage o...

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Episodes

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TWSP Ep4 - New Growth: There’s No Such Thing As A Permanent Relaxer

TWSP Ep3 - Snatching Edges: Lay It Down, Don’t Pull It Out!

TWSP Ep2 - Sitting Between The Knees: Work What Your Mama Gave You!

TWSP Ep1 - Let’s Take Your Hair Down: Who’s Been Doing Your Hair?

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TWSP Live! - Hot Off The Press featuring Dr. Brittany Cooper

TWSP Ep5 - Scratching Your Head Out: What’s Love Got To Do With It?