Some Scattered Observations About Aging, Beauty, Women, Etc
The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter le... See more
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Many People Have A Fear Of Aging; These Helpers Ask: What If We Aged With Joy Instead?
Kamrin Bakergoodgoodgood.co
Beauty, or our idea of it, is always rooted in deep desires, capitulations, and pathologies. It makes certain things so obvious. How we spend the present trying to secure the future, and thus squander what’s in front of us. How we fail to appreciate what we may later understand as an experience of unbelievable plenty: unlined skin, spare time on Sa
... See moreI was then looking at my friends, and there were belly rolls folded over a laptop keyboard. There was cellulite and body hair and razor burn and everyone was a bit sweaty and sticky and red. It’s just so beautiful to me. And I realized in that moment how desensitized I’ve become from what women look like, what women’s bodies have always looked like... See more