Emma González, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., at the March for Our Lives rally. Credit Andrew Harnik/Associated Press
Buzzed: The Politics of Hair | Vanessa Friedman
As Geraldine Biddle-Perry, an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and the co-editor of “Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion,” wrote in an email exchange, “For women who voluntarily cut/shave their hair, volition alters the symbolic grammar and so the act functions in terms of female agency and empowerment.”
Which in turn raises the question of whether we are in for more head shaving, and whether that may ultimately lead to a time when, Dr. Vearncombe said, “we will not care about what a woman puts on or removes from her head.”
I’ve known a few women who had it in them to shave or cut their hair super short at least at one point in their lives – they are all very different, and great in their own way, but awesomeness is the one common trait.
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