16: industrialized vs. spiritual beauty (💡: Jessica DeFino)

Welcome to a new series within my podcast called Beauty Bites *insert chews*. This is an ode to and a home for the very many thoughts I have on Beauty politics and breaking the colonial Beauty paradigm. In today’s episode we discuss an idea I learned from Jessica DeFino’s Substack, The Unpublishable. It is the idea that the beauty we are sold (industrialized beauty) is not the beauty we actually yearn for or need as human beings on earth (spiritual beauty). I wanted to discuss Jessica’s powerful idea further on the pod, so here it goes. 

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Key quote from episode: 

“Nothing that makes a person hate themselves should be allowed to be called Beauty” 

Time stamps

(00:00): Intro to Beauty Bites *insert chews* 

(05:35): Intro to The Unpublishable Substack

(09:47): The cultural importance of spiritual beauty

(11:24): Ask ChatGPT: Beauty industry and religious language

(16:56): Reclaiming Beauty

(22:44): Democratizing the access to spiritual beauty

(29:00): Closing

Sources mentioned: 

The Unpublishable by Jessica DeFino

Essay: Beauty, Appearance, Attraction, & Power

The Ugliness of Beauty episode by me (Apple & Spotify) 

Moving Towards Ugliness Ft. Mia Mingus episode by me (Apple & Spotify) 

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