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We washed each other's hair and weaved braids of solidarity, first in the streets, then in prisons.
Braids of protection and understanding were woven for us in our exile in new homes by host hands.
In bomb shelters, at train stations, in refugee shelters, and in foreign countries, we, again and again, wash each other's hair and weave braids of care.
Victims of repression and war, in our fragile structures of care, empathy, and sisterhood, we intertwine with our braids networks of resistance, united and strong in our weakness.
The video "We washed each other's hair" was filmed in 2021 at the Mystetskyi Arsenal as part of the "Dollhouse" project.
The performance was attended by Ukrainians and Belarusians from Kyiv: Polina Brodik, Kasya Shulgan, Olga Komissarova, Lena Amnuel, Dia Proector, Nadiya Zhiva, Polina Babchenok, Viktoria Bavykina, Natasha Chychasova