The Black Hair Tax: No Breaks for Black Women Who Want to Avoid Breakage
Want to Be a Baddie? Then You Better Have the Body: Why I Hate Social Media
Tiktok has many videos about the pain and torture that so many young women have gone through during and after various procedures. There are those that claim that plastic surgery was not worth it in the end; some received botched results. Thought processes are overshadowed as social media influencers and celebrities promote being an ‘It Girl’ or ‘Baddie’: most associate that personality type with having an attractive body…
Algorithms, Archetypes and Aesthetics: How Your Online Lifestyle is Denying You Desire
There is no moral trophy awarded for inhabiting a certain type of body or seamlessly aligning with all of the ‘right kinds’ of media. No matter how you frame calorie restriction, you won’t have the energy or physical desire to have sex. But you will fit into the cultural understanding of what sexually desirable is – what matters is how desirable you are, not how much desire you experience…