The Quotidian Terror of Wearing Braids

N. Lewis
5 min readJul 17, 2019

It’s like Get Out, but with hair.

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Among the supernatural beings in Japanese folklore, there is one called futakuchi-onna. She is a woman with two mouths, the other one located in the back of her head. If not for that second mouth, the woman would be just another woman suffering the binds of marriage, creative starvation, and social mores. But this woman wants more. She must be fulfilled. She must…

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N. Lewis

Secular nun, media and participatory culture enthusiast, Bad Democrat, and shambolic mess. Occasional observations and rants guaranteed.