#elf locks

Hey everyone,

There has been an overwhelming response to this zine, if anyone still wants a copy, I just finished a run of printing. 5$ plus shipping.

“elflocks & the polish plait : a european history of locked and matted hair.

looking into varied histories of locked and matted hair throughout europe between 1285 and 1920 drawing from old medical journals, fairy tales, recorded anecdotes, mythology and dictionaries.

while asking critical questions of white folks wearing locks in a white supremacist society, this zine seeks to challenge colonial mindsets entrenched in christendom, medical practice, the enlightenment, and attempting to re-member pagan european landbased histories.”

finally the zine is done! been working on this for years!!! 5$, maybe more for shipping? 8.5″ x 5.5″, 40 pages. cardstock cover. snail mail letters and mixtape trades for the pdf (imposed and/or suited for reading).

I’ve spent a lot of time, the last few months, denying that I need to acknowledge or do any research into Frau Hole. I woke up last week with Fairy Knots in my hair, which hasn’t happened in literally years. When I when searching for information I found a connection to Frau Hole.  Alright, Dear Lady, I hear you. German counterparts of the “elf-lock”…

When young children, especially girls, wake from an evening’s slumber with tangles and snarls in their hair, mothers with a tradition of  fairy folklore might whisper to their daughters that they had caught fairy locks or elf-locks.