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Chelsey Luger
In Native American Culture, Hair Meets Soul Meets Body
How cultural identity shapes this wellness advocate’s hair story, and purpose.
May 3, 2017, 4:09pm EDT By Vox Creative
This piece is one in a series about unapologetic women whose hair makes a statement. Follow their stories here.
Hair caught in a brush often gets thrown in the trash — but not in Chelsey Luger’s family. In fact, when her great, great-grandmother would find hair in her hairbrush, she would burn it in a fire. “When you burn something in a fire, it is released back into the environment — you’re showing it the respect that it deserves,” she says.
Like many cultures throughout the world, Native Americans hold their hair to a higher purpose. No two tribes are alike, but a common thread between each is the importance of hair. As Luger explains, your hair is a physical manifestation of your spirit. Cutting, burying, and burning it all carry a strong significance and meaning. It’s often tradition in some tribes to cut your hair and bury it with the deceased when someone close to you dies. When Luger’s older sister lost her hair to chemotherapy as a child, she cut hers as well. “That was the first time that I organically recognized and heard from my elders how much energy our hair carries, and how symbolic it is,” she says. “It's an extension of us. When I saw that my sister had to lose hers, we're sisters, we're one and the same, and so I couldn't let her lose that energy without giving some of mine.”
“We take pride in our hair because it represents our nations, our blood, and who we are.”
Luger doesn’t stray far from her roots, both in her long locks or in her career. Luger originally sought to “make it” far from home; she’s an alumna of Dartmouth College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. But Luger now lives and works in Onk-Akimel O’Odham territory, in Phoenix, Arizona, as a writer, editor, and health and wellness trainer. She covers stories that impact indigenous communities, like Standing Rock, but also often combines her journalism background with her passion for wellness. In 2014, she co-founded Well For Culture, an organization that focuses on methodologies for improving health in Native country. Through that initiative, Luger promotes everything from “ancestral eating” to “functional training and indigenized fitness” through workshops and education. Drawing on the strength of her culture, Luger keeps on the move and strives to make a difference in the community that raised her.
About the Director
Alexandra Stergiou is an award-winning, New York-based director interested in finding new ways to explore cross-cultural identities. Her work has been showcased at festivals and venues around the U.S. In 2014, she was commissioned to develop a documentary workshop in Greece in conjunction with the NGO, Babel, where she worked with migrants and refugees in Athens to make several short films about the city. In addition to her film work and activism, she’s worked as a director, producer, and cinematographer for such brands and publications as Cole Haan, Maybelline, Milk Studios, Refinery29, This American Life, and Glamour. She is currently in post-production for her feature directorial debut, a documentary about Queens teenagers enacting in real time the 2016 Presidential Election. Photo by Vladimir Weinstein.
Alexandra on Chelsey:
“Her story is one of greater purpose: Health and wellness is not just about the individual, but about society at large and the very fate of the land itself.”
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Chrome 79 is ready for public consumption, and while it adds new features and tweaks, it’s also the last chance most users will have to use a handful of hidden Chrome features.
As Android Police reports, Chrome 80 beta testers have noticed that several features that are still present in Chrome 79 are missing, including a few long-awaited features that will be dropped once Chrome 80 goes public.
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Below is a list of the soon-to-be-dropped features that are still around in Chrome 79 but will be nixed in version 80. Most of these can be enabled in Chrome by going to chrome://flags/ and using the search bar to find the flags listed below, then set the dropdown box to “enabled.”
Reader Mode
Despite testing out the feature for a few months now, Google will be dropping its planned reader mode before it even gets off the ground.
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You can still enable it in Chrome 79 by setting the #reader-mode-heuristics and #enable-reader-mode-in-cct flags to “enabled,” but it’ll be gone in Chrome 80.
Hiding suggested articles
If you prefer to not have your new tab windows cluttered with browsing suggestions, I have some bad news: hiding suggested articles from new Chrome tab windows will no longer be possible by disabling the #enable-ntp-remote-suggestions flag. However, you’re still able to hide them permanently by clicking the three-dots “more” icon next to the “Articles for you” section of a blank new tab page and tapping “hide.”
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Overscroll and horizontal tab switching
Two navigation options have been removed from Chrome Mobile in the Chrome 80 beta, and presumably will be absent once the public release launches. The first is overscroll, a gesture-based control that lets you move back and forwards within a tab by swiping left or right. The other is the horizontal tab switcher, which changes the layout of tabs in your open tabs tray from the default vertical orientation to horizontal.
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If you’ve never tried these out, you can enable either feature in the Chrome flags settings in Chrome 79. Search for and enable #overscroll-history-navigation flag for overscrolling, or #enable-horizontal-tab-switcher to use the horizontal tab switcher while it’s still around.
FTP support
While many File Transfer Protocol (FTP) tools still exist, Google says that the use of FTP services has dropped for Chrome users to the point where it’s no longer worth supporting the feature. Chrome’s FTP support will slowly be phased out over the next few releases, beginning with Chrome 80. You can still technically re-enable it in Chrome 80 by turning on the #enable-ftp flag, but this will be removed entirely with the rollout of Chrome 82, so get in those last transfers while you can.
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If you want to see what a Chrome stripped of these features will be like—as well as a handful of new features coming soon—you can download the Chrome 80 beta here.
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