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How to embrace – and challenge – the idea of “beauty” (w / Elise Hu)
How to Be a Better Human
How to Deal With the Technological Gaze
I try to just opt out and not beautify myself as much as possible. This is so easy for me to talk about but very hard to practice because we live in a beauty culture. What I'm trying to do though is be very intentional in breaking those scripts that I'm so used to saying to myself. It could be the project of more of our lives and that we can talk about it and feel less alone in this struggle. We have to remember that trans people are victims of violence and violent crime at a rate far higher than non-trans people. In many cases gender affirming appearance was really about safety and security and being able to show up without threat of violence.
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