Hair and Self Image
our time

Hair can shape our identities or it can challenge the very notion of how we define beauty. Filmmakers Shaienne Knox and Isabella Recca examine the role hair plays in their lives and communities. In Out of Our Heads, 16-year-old Knox explores the ways in which African American girls and women style their hair. In Bella, 17-year-old Isabella Recca tests her own beauty standards by shaving her head.

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 102

About Our Time:

OUR TIME is a series produced by youth in partnership with professional documentary filmmakers.

Films in the series feature character-driven stories that address social issues ranging from racial inequity to identity politics and everything in-between - all through the eyes of young people.

Working hand-in-hand with award-winning, nationally recognized filmmakers and television producers, these young students produce high-caliber, emotionally driven, first-person narratives that derive from their own lived experiences.


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Fri, Oct 31 5:00 A.M. Protecting Families - SKINNED KNEES and KIK-ME!     NH World (11.3)
Fri, Oct 31 11:00 A.M. Protecting Families - SKINNED KNEES and KIK-ME!     NH World (11.3)
Fri, Oct 31 2:00 P.M. Protecting Families - SKINNED KNEES and KIK-ME!     NH World (11.3)


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