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shekhinasappho:
“As a Jewish Lesbian I am ready to take on a strengthening Lesbian symbol, yet one that has been my legacy of Nazi dehumanization: the power in taking very short or shaved hair. (For years when I saw Lesbians with buzzed haircuts I was uncontrollably filled with fear. I have not forgotten yet I am ready to rid myself of this association that has followed me for many years.)5. I was talking to a non-Jewish friend the other night about myself as a Jew. As I spoke my fingers repeatedly ran through my hair, pulling it out to its fullest lengths, twisting its curls. I remembered the judgments and disdain its wildness and frizziness brought on me for so many years as a girl as I ironed and straightened and snipped away at its swirls. As I got older the textures of my hair changed and today when the weather is right my hair becomes again these swirls and waves. I am beginning in a new way to reclaim with awareness my Jewish identity and it is easy to understand why my hair symbolizes this identity to me and is now affirming. This identity is a place where I have gone and where I need to stay. I am afraid that by cutting my hair I’ll make less visible this part of myself: I will be more visible Lesbian and less visible Jew.”
— Susan, “I Know I Take a Chance in Forming Words into Meaning: A Leap Over Wild Waters. Or, Talking Myself into Getting a Haircut,” 1982. (via lesbianartandartists)
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shekhinasappho:
“As a Jewish Lesbian I am ready to take on a strengthening Lesbian symbol, yet one that has been my legacy of Nazi dehumanization: the power in taking very short or shaved hair. (For years when I saw Lesbians with buzzed haircuts I was uncontrollably filled with fear. I have not forgotten yet I am ready to rid myself of this association that has followed me for many years.)5. I was talking to a non-Jewish friend the other night about myself as a Jew. As I spoke my fingers repeatedly ran through my hair, pulling it out to its fullest lengths, twisting its curls. I remembered the judgments and disdain its wildness and frizziness brought on me for so many years as a girl as I ironed and straightened and snipped away at its swirls. As I got older the textures of my hair changed and today when the weather is right my hair becomes again these swirls and waves. I am beginning in a new way to reclaim with awareness my Jewish identity and it is easy to understand why my hair symbolizes this identity to me and is now affirming. This identity is a place where I have gone and where I need to stay. I am afraid that by cutting my hair I’ll make less visible this part of myself: I will be more visible Lesbian and less visible Jew.”
— Susan, “I Know I Take a Chance in Forming Words into Meaning: A Leap Over Wild Waters. Or, Talking Myself into Getting a Haircut,” 1982. (via lesbianartandartists)
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