The erasure of how people keep and style their hair is a part of every genocide. They come up with ways to justify it every time, excuses for why it’s necessary. But the real point is to erase a person’s identity and their connection to their culture.
I grew up being told that my indigenous hairstyles were against dress code or were inappropriate. Wasnt till high school that I put my foot down and refused to shave my Mohawk.
The erasure of how people keep and style their hair is a part of every genocide. They come up with ways to justify it every time, excuses for why it’s necessary. But the real point is to erase a person’s identity and their connection to their culture.
I grew up being told that my indigenous hairstyles were against dress code or were inappropriate. Wasnt till high school that I put my foot down and refused to shave my Mohawk.
They do this in US prisons as well, for that very same reason.
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60 minutes interviewed the photojournalist Philip Holsinger. He says as much when discussing the pictures of them bound, shaved and wearing all white.