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Women Are Growing Their Body Hair In The Name Of ‘Januhairy’

We’ve officially stopped shaving our legs 🙌 - by Lucy Bode
  • 08 Jan 2020
Women Are Growing Their Body Hair In The Name Of ‘Januhairy’

Move over, Movember. Januhairy is here.

The memo? Skip shaving in favour of a going el natural – and honestly, we couldn’t be more on board.

The motive behind the campaign is two-fold: to knock back the notion that women shouldn’t have body hair and also raise funds for the climate change crisis.

"A very hairy new year to you all!!,” a post on the Januhairy IG account reads. “Today marks the first day of #januhairy2020 where women all over the world come together to drop our razors for the month of January.”

While the campaign is targeted primarily at women, “all genders and identities” are encouraged to get involved. “Let's educate one another on ALL experiences within this 'prickly' subject,” the post continues.

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Three days in to the world wide #januhairy movement, combating social pressures on what it means to be a 'Woman', or any identity for that matter, whilst raising money for @treesisters_official 🌱 protecting and restoring our natural habitat, as well as our bodies. How is your januhairy going so far? 'Wait what? It's januhairy 3rd already? Damn, isn't it too late to join in?' Umm NO OF COURSE NOT 🎉This is all about your individual experiences within the empowering community of Januhairy! Start now, start next week; you're still spreading our message and challenging yourself and, in turn, fucking with the patriarchy... Visit 'januhairy . org' (without the spaces) for more info on the movement and the charity involved. Photo from @neonmoon whose products we are very excited to be involved with in our upcoming photo shoot! 'Waaat? A photo shoot? Wow!'. Yup, we are hosting a Januhairy photo shoot this weekend in London celebrating all beautiful hairy bodies!! There will for sure be a few little teasers on our stories all throughout the day, so keep your eyes peeled 👀 Hairy hugs!

‘Januhairy’ is the brainchild of Laura Jackson, a former drama student at Exeter University, who started the campaign after growing out her body hair for a performance. Since then, it’s grown into an international movement that supports all kinds of worthy causes.

"Our charity focus this year is to support TreeSisters in protecting, restoring and funding reforestation... We envision a world in which it is normal for everyone to protect and restore themselves and their world, a plight we resonate with as women, to protect and restore our personal natural habitats!”

While most people are here for it, the announcement has stirred up a bit of debate on social media.

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“It’s important that we see these (negative) comments because it reminds us why we are doing this campaign and what opinions we are trying to change,” Laura said in an interview with TODAY Style. “These people don’t understand this yet and that’s OK… that’s what the campaign is for. At least we are all talking about it!”

Hear, hear.

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