{"podcast":{"title":"We Are Spiraling","slug":"we-are-spiraling-7559558","podcast_index_feed_id":7559558,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2551823.rss","website_url":"https://wearespiraling.com/welcome","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/vss4bjrsek1hrvfnn23sw3luovtg?.jpg","author":"Priya Anand","episode_count":17,"summary":"We talk about curly hair to learn more about our culture — from how we perceive ourselves to how the world sees us. Priya Anand, an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in Bloomberg, Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed and Politico, turns her investigative eye to her lifelong obsession: curly hair. You might think: curly hair, how much is there to say? A whole podcast dedicated to this? I don’t want to hear someone ramble about all their hair lotions and potions! But there is so much to unravel about why so many people hide their ringlets as secret curlies, how politicians who wear their hair curly are vilified and what Hollywood's hostility toward curls means for our society.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T08:20:07.777358+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-are-spiraling-7559558"},"episode":{"title":"The Problem With Disney Erasing Moana’s Curls","slug":"the-problem-with-disney-erasing-moana-s-curls","published_at":"2026-07-09T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-are-spiraling-7559558/the-problem-with-disney-erasing-moana-s-curls","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-are-spiraling-7559558","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2551823/episodes/19466113-the-problem-with-disney-erasing-moana-s-curls.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2551823/episodes/19466113-the-problem-with-disney-erasing-moana-s-curls.mp3","summary":"Disney releases its live action Moana remake this week. And while Catherine Laga'aia has natural curls that match the animated Moana’s perfectly, the film puts her in wigs with…not as curly hair at all. And yet the Rock was given a curly wig everyone has thoughts on. We dissect why the director’s explanation falls flat and Disney deserves to be called out. Subscribe to our Substack for behind-the-scenes stories: WeAreSpiraling.com Follow Priya on Instagram and TikTok MAYURA waitlist and In...","meta_description":"Disney releases its live action Moana remake this week. And while Catherine Laga'aia has natural curls that match the animated Moana’s perfectly, the film…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":364,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/we-are-spiraling-7559558/episodes/the-problem-with-disney-erasing-moana-s-curls/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-are-spiraling-7559558/the-problem-with-disney-erasing-moana-s-curls.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}