The “Weird” Brown Girl Podcast

EP 10: Keep My Hair Out Of Your Mouth!

Black women’s hair is always subject to scrutiny…even from black people as well. We tell each other our hair sucks so we should relax it, if it’s in it’s natural state it’s undone and unkempt. Our primary schools and high schools and Zimbabwean society tells us to cut it or relax it (colonisation, cough cough). Then naturalistas shame other black women or girls who opt for wigs or women who relax their hair. The issue of black women or black people’s hair is messy and here is my messy experience!

EP 9: Beauty Standards And Why You’ll Never Be Enough!

You’ll never be tall enough or thick enough or anything enough for that matter… and that’s okay!

EP 8: Yes, Toxic Masculinity Is A Thing!

Sure, I can blame it on the patriarchy but there’s more to it than that.

EP 7: Toxic Femininity Exists Too!

If there’s toxic masculinity then there’s definitely toxic femininity!

EP 6: Being a girl and trying to dress up in Zimbabwe…YIKES!

Sure, opening a dendairy icecream container and finding soup or beans inside sucks but do you know what else sucks? Trying to dress up as a girl in Zimbabwe…. There’s always going to be an “auntie” or “uncle” to harass you and call you a Jezebel and a clueless person who will sexualise just about anything and everything you wear simply because you’re a … drumroll please; a girl. Sigh. Here’s an account of my experiences and how I navigate myself through all the sexualisation and harassment.