Back in March, I had the absolute pleasure of attending and presenting at the Pop Con ’25 conference hosted at USC’s Thornton School of Music. This year’s conference theme, “Baby, It’s a Look: Pop Music, Fashion, and Style at the Edge,” invited an array of topics, conversations, and scholarly explorations. For the panel I was part of entitled Hair Choreography: The Politics of Hair in Pop Performance, I delivered my paper “I Just Don’t Believe It’s Fair: How Black Women Artists Use Hair as Symbols of Resistance and Revolution,” exploring how Black women in music employ hair as a form of resistance and revolution. As someone outside academia, I always leave these conferences inspired, curious, and motivated to dig deeper into my own music scholarship pursuits. My presentation is live on my YouTube channel. Check it out below!