Notes on Culture

09 Apr 2023 31 min read

There is no safety in being Beautiful: reflections from a life spent On Display ™

A child model turned grad-school stripper talks openly about the reality of being shackled to Beauty and the negotiations a life of Beauty investment necessitates.

06 Nov 2022 14 min read

Beauty Talk: the Jezebel, the Mammy, and the third gender of "Black woman."

Chapter one review of Deborah Gray White's "Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South" with the question: what makes us so attached to Beauty when it was designed to suffocate us?