a personal comic about haircuts and being queer and not realising your body isn’t really yours until you buy a pair of hair clippers
That’s my experience anyway✨(commission info)(kofi)✨
I just nearly started crying because I identify with this feeling of owning myself so hard but I didn’t even really realize it.
YES!! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this.
When I had long hair, I was catcalled and sexually harassed by strangers CONSTANTLY. Literally multiple times a day. I also constantly had my hair up. One of my favorite styles was tucking my hair under a beanie so only my bangs showed and I could pretend to have short hair.
The day I cut off most of my hair, the catcalls stopped. They happen once or twice a month now. What’s more, I still remember the glow of looking at myself in the reflection of shop windows and every mirror I passed and seeing someone who really looked like ME for the first time.
I’ve had short hair for almost five years now. Somewhere in there I tried to grow it out for a year, but the person in the mirror was a stranger. I buzzed it off again.
My mom mourns my long hair. She warnes me against cutting it when I wanted to growing up; she said it would make me look fatter.
It makes me look like ME.
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