Braids on Stage

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

'Have a seat in my chair..'
Today we're at the braiding salon with Ghanaian American playwright Jocelyn Bioh, creator of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, Jaja's African Hair Braiding.
We chat with her about braiding salon culture, and the different kinds of people she portrays in the play. We explore the African American-African immigrant dynamics that can happen at braiding salons, we talk immigrant life, audiences that maybe don't get it, and the practice of Black playwrights holding "Black out" nights at the theatre.

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0:00.0	Hey, Hannah. Hey, Lila. Okay, so today we are in conversation with someone we've been following for a while, playwright Jocelyn Bio. If you don't know, she is the award-winning playwright behind the hit play, Jja's African hair braiding that's on tour right now.
0:23.3	Mm-hmm.
0:24.0	And it's about the good, the bad,
0:26.6	and the not-so-pity conversations
0:28.3	and observations that happen in salons.
0:32.0	We couldn't wait to see it,
0:34.0	then we saw it, and we talked to her.
0:36.7	We need to soupoop this out.
0:38.2	Yes.
0:54.7	My cousins were My cousins were water in Greece girls
0:56.5	And I couldn't be a water in Greece girl
0:58.6	That's what I'm talking about ballerine in the hood
1:00.7	Wee be Galagitian United people
1:02.8	When a black woman walks up to the desk in labor
1:06.5	What preconceived notions do you have about her?
1:10.6	I didn't even know we had a hair sharp.
1:17.5	The Stoop.
1:23.6	Hey there, it's Hannaa from The Stoop.
1:26.5	And Lila.
1:33.0	Thank you so much to everyone who's already donated to Radiotopia's fall fundraiser.
1:37.6	We just started season 11, and we are so excited for you to hear it.
1:46.4	You know what we do on the Stoop, center black stories, black voices, and we want to keep this going. You can help make this happen.
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