Aisha Harris, co-host for NPR’s <a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510282/pop-culture-happy-hour">Pop Culture Hour</a>, is out with a new book titled <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris?variant=40679574437922">Wannabe: Reckonings With The Pop Culture That Shapes Me.</a> Harris explores how early influences and cultural tropes shape her role today as critic, including her upbringing in Connecticut. Today, she joins us for the hour. Plus, we learn ways to slow down the fast fashion cycle. Lucianne Tonti, a fashion consultant and author of the new book <a href="https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/sundressed">Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion</a> joins us. GUESTS: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.npr.org/people/912788259/aisha-harris">Aisha Harris:</a> Co-Host, NPR's Pop Culture Hour; Author, Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me</li> <li>Lucianne Tonti: Fashion Consultant; Author, <a href="https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/sundressed">Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion</a></li> </ul> Cat Pastor contributed to this episode which originally aired on <a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/2023-06-15/nprs-aisha-harris-on-reckonings-with-the-pop-culture-that-shapes-me">June 15, 2023</a>.<a href="http://wnpr.org/donate" rel="payment">Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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