The barbershop has long been a place where men have gathered and talked, but a new wave of barbers are transforming the way men can have conversations.
RMIT University is committed to challenging outdated ideas and behaviours that contribute to gender inequality and violence.
The University’s Gender, Equity and Justice project has hosted a series of pop-up barbershops with well-known local, The Streets barber Nasir Sobhani and most recently it’s final pop- up events with the internationally acclaimed barber and family violence survivor Matt Brown.
Students were not only provided with quality fades and trims by Brown, who has cut everyone’s hair from the All Blacks to the Wu Tang Clan, but they also had the chance to hear his story as a survivor of family violence and childhood sexual abuse.
