Uyghur women are often coerced into cosmetology careers. For instance, over one hundred women from Ulughchat County (Ch. Wuqia) in Qizilsu Prefecture completed a twenty-day “closed-door” (Ch. fengbi shi) course, which required them to live and study, “without charge,” in a vocational facility. In addition to learning the ropes of cosmetology, these women also studied Putonghua and Chinese law. Therefore, their curriculum resembles that of women “studying” cosmetology and hairdressing in the region’s concentration re-education centers.
That’s not free public education. That’s a genocidal concentration camp.
Officials confidently predict that this campaign will transform Uyghur women into docile Chinese subjects. A representative from the XUAR’s Women’s Federation explained that “the Beauty Parlor and Hair Salon initiative will bring forth three transformations in the lives of women. First, women will transform their body image. Then, they will transform their way of life. Finally, they will transform their way of thinking.”
Women wearing makeup and going to hair salons is genocide. I know, I didn’t realize this either.
This article links to this other banger
https://web.archive.org/web/20240514164156/https://blog.westminster.ac.uk/contemporarychina/beautifying-uyghur-bodies-fashion-modernity-and-state-power-in-the-tarim-basin-2/
That’s not free public education. That’s a genocidal concentration camp.
Women wearing makeup and going to hair salons is genocide. I know, I didn’t realize this either.
Imagine, being "required" to not pay for a vocational education that includes classes on law.