Is it Possible to Resist the Pressures of the Beauty Industry? — Gloria

Women’s feminine frames were once thought to have psychological weakness written into them; racism often finds a foothold in talk of bodies, sliding inexorably towards genetics, eugenics and more. The body is political. So it’s not a huge leap to see how food – the very stuff that makes our bodies, drives us, and keeps us strong – is used to keep b

Conventional physical beauty takes time, money, and effort, and it is expensive for all women, but it is cruelly so for women without resources.

body shame was a tool of White supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.

Beauty is not good capital. It compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable.