Young women in South Korea calling themselves “beauty resisters” are fighting back against the powerful and incredibly profitable beauty and cosmetic surgery industries.
Tag: beauty standards
We must be able to recognize the oppressive nature of the burqa without increasing the burden of racist misogyny upon the women who wear it.
Not since the civil rights movement has the afro been so visible, but now its purpose isn’t just political — it’s aesthetic. Designers now use “natural” models regularly, countless black-owned online stores…
I’m about to admit something that, in a patriarchy, is tantamount to a cardinal sin: I’m letting myself go. Letting myself go. I choose that phrase intentionally — a phrase designed to…
On May 1st, a number of Canadian pro-sex work groups released an open letter to rabble.ca. The letter demanded that rabble, “end [its] association with [Meghan Murphy] as editor and columnist” on…