Best for: All those impacted by Western beauty standards. In a nutshell: The way the West defines beauty (‘entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism’) isn’t something to aspire to, and it is holding women back. Worth quoting: “How might we possibly reconcile the reality of the joys and pleasures we can find in our bodies, and in rituals of beautification…with the age-old and sometimes fraught feminist discourses, and the justified pushback against an overemphasis on our looks as not only a drag on […]
“Disobedient bodies don’t just look a certain way, they act.”
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty by Emma Dabiri

