Pop-Up Chop Shop
From the Italian barbershop with chrome-and-leather chairs and a spinning tri-color outside to the black barbershop where locals come to socialize, gossip, or debate, every community in Brooklyn has its hair cutters. In this tradition, Hair Force One, a Bed-Stuy-based queer haircutting collective, seeks to carve out a space for a community connected by gender identity. The group hosts periodic pop-up events called “Phresh Cutz,” where it offers its take on the barbershop — a place where gender-identity is traditionally shaped through the cutting or styling of hair.