Beauty + Justice Dr. Tamarra James-Todd

How do beauty justice issues impact Asian immigrant communities? In this episode, Dr. Lucy Chie joins Dr. Tamarra James-Todd to discuss their research regarding beauty product chemical exposures among the Chinese immigrant community in Boston.

How does dermatology, the study of skin, hair, and nail health, intersect with the beauty justice movement?

Dr. Blair Wylie joins Dr. Tamarra James-Todd to discuss how clinicians have an important role to play in the work toward beauty justice.

What are the chemicals of concern in our beauty products and what can we do to make safer beauty decisions? Dr. Tamarra James-Todd is joined by Dr. Robin Dodson from the Silent Spring Institute to discuss not only what these chemicals are but also what is driving these inequities in beauty product chemical exposures. They also discuss ways to empower consumers and hold regulatory agencies and beauty product manufacturers accountable to achieve beauty justice.

Join Dr. Tamarra James-Todd and Dr. Tamara Gilkes Borr as they discuss the cost of Black hair.

How do historic attitudes about race, identity, and beauty impact our current beauty industry and standards? How is diversity the key to the path forward for the beauty justice movement? In this episode, Dr. Tamarra James-Todd is joined by Lori Tharps, author of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, to dive into these questions. Lori shares wisdom from her personal experiences and professional body of work. She also underscores the importance of diversity and intersectionality in moving towards a more just and equitable future of beauty for everyone.