Hair Variation, What’s Her Story? (ICYMI) with Dr. Tina Lasisi
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
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Is There Racism in Dermatology?
In forensics, like hairs trace evidence. There are experts in recognizing different types of fibers. And what they say is that they can tell apart different people based on their hair. In dermatology, we really just have like some hardcore hard core racism in dermatology. We're saying there are certain kinds of hair that are okay to have if you are a certain race and then there's certain kind of hair that we're saying are not proper if this is your race. That doesn't even make my logical sense. This doesn't even made sense. It was super upsetting to read about African ancestry getting silky hair. But somebody who has nothing wrong with them, except that they have curly
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