You Can't Touch My Hair
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Average rating3.7
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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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.
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.
