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Who’s who: Protesters and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. Grégory Pierrot argues that ‘hipsterdom has its roots in Black cultural appropriation’. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
ANDREW JOHNSON

Your hipster beard has long been problematic

Grégory Pierrot’s analysis of the deep roots of white supremacy and black exploitation in hipster culture in Decolonise Hipsters also offers a way out

  • Chelsea Stieber
6 min read