A Wisconsin state lawmaker got a buzz cut after following through on a year-and-a-half-long pledge to not cut his hair until a sign language interpreter bill was passed, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported Monday.
State Assembly Rep. Jonathan Brostoff (D) vowed to hold off on a haircut until the state passed a measure addressing the shortage of skilled sign language interpreters.
Kayleigh Kwasny, a salon owner who became profoundly deaf as a toddler, offered to do the haircut at her shop for free in return for Brostoff bringing attention to the deaf community, according to the Journal-Sentinel.
“People are starting to become more aware of our needs, what we need to fit into the hearing society,” Kwasny told the paper. “It makes hearing people realize … that we matter.”{mosads}