Finding My Power: How Shaving My Head Gave Me Freedom
Perhaps this wasn’t the weight they were encouraging me to lose, but it’s changed my life.
I watched the video of her shaving her head over and over. Watched her cry, her hair falling down her body in long blonde strands, the slashing of a feminine power which, for years, had contributed to her feelings of powerlessness. The paradox of beauty and all its trappings. Rebecca Woolf — All of This
This story begins last fall, on an otherwise-ordina…
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