You Can't Touch My Hair
Ratings27
Average rating3.6
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Ratings27
Average rating3.6
A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson.
Being a Black woman in American means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities. Robinson uses her trademark wit to explore examine our cultural climate and skewer our biases with humor and heart.
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3.5 Really enjoyed her audio reading because she added so many asides that weren't in the print book. Uneven in the quality of the essays, but overall enjoyable time spent with her.
I LOVE 2 Dope Queens, and think Phoebe Robinson is absolutely one of the funniest people on the comedy scene right now. I listened to this as an audio book. There were a couple good LOL moments, but not as many as I was hoping for. However, I found the book super enlightening in terms of my own white privilege, learning more about what women of color go through on a daily basis, from the discriminations at department stores to those in the workforce and beyond. I learned more about some of my own inherent biases and chuckled along the way, which I think is super important.
Probably would have liked it better as a book instead of an audiobook - all the #hashtag jokes got irritating when she's reading the word “hashtag” out loud constantly, but I would've been able to skip over them if I were reading. On the other hand, the John Hodgman letter was great and it was really endearing hearing her crack herself up reading her own book.
