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Carolita Johnson's avatar

The way they called Britney Spears crazy when she shaved her head was a violence I felt very deeply even though I’d never do it, myself (I don’t have the head shape for it). As the daughter of an Ecuadorian mother, I got the same lecture about “your hair is your asset.” I was like, really, not my intelligence or my resourcefulness? (Sometimes when someone says something so obviously stupid it’s a gift!) if I had the money to get my hair cut every month I’d have short hair for sure.

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Jodi Sh. Doff's avatar

I’ve had such a complicated relationship with my hair, from hating it and myself, to loving it and hating myself for cutting it, to finally just being okay with it being hair. But in all my fantasies of running away and starting over, one of the first thing I imagine myself doing, is shaving it all off. How else would one get a fresh start.

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