From there, Hudson's style also started to evolve too: she started wearing clothes from the men's section of stores again as well as chest binders. "It's been an evolution," she said. "In some ways, I felt like I was returning to my initial presentation when I was a kid where I totally embraced the masculine or boyish sides of myself more fully."
Getting Buzzed in Quarantine
Affirmed as she felt, Hudson hasn't stopped her hair journey, even to this day. In fact, as state mandates issued stay-home orders to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, she decided to embark on her biggest transformation to date: a buzzcut.
"I had gotten a lot of compliments on my hair — and once I stepped into it being the way I really wanted it to be, I also became very attached to it — but there was something about paring down and the hard butchness of shaving your head that really appealed to me," she said. "I just wanted to take away all the performance, and when the lockdown started, I couldn't go see my hairstylist anymore. My hair started getting longer and more bulky and helmet-like, and I was like, 'I hate this. Why don't I just shave my head and see what that looks like?"
Image Source: Courtesy of Genevieve Hudson