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TitleAre the mothers of America avatars of Delilah?
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PublisherFree City Collective
PlaceSan Francisco
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Date 110/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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MediumBroadsheet
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CatalogFC-1-005a
CollectionSOLA-o; SS-o (MH)
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FC-1-005a
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This Free City sheet is a comic, confrontational defense of long hair as a mark of beauty, freedom, and nonconformity, turning the period’s obsession with male hair length into a satire on sexual anxiety, social control, and straight society’s moral panic. Written in a deliberately mocking, conversational voice, it argues that hostility to “long-hairs” reflects jealousy and repression more than principle, while linking barbers, shorn respectability, and conventional masculinity to a broader culture of conformity. The page’s whimsical yet slightly menacing graphic border—serpentine forms, hybrid creatures, and ornamental fantasy figures—reinforces the text’s blend of camp, provocation, and countercultural style.
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