Disobedient Bodies (Paperback)
Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
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An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty
An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next
'A MUST-READ' PSYCHOLOGIES
'RADICAL, INCISIVE, THOUGHTFUL ... I CAN'T RECOMMEND ENOUGH' VICKY SPRATT
For too long, beauty has been entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism: objectification, shame, control, competition and consumerism. We need to find a way to do beauty differently.
This radical, deeply personal and empowering essay points to ways we can all embrace our unruly beauty and enjoy our magnificent, disobedient bodies.
It accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection, opening in October 2023.
'POWERFUL' THE i, Best New Books to Read in October 2023
'CALLS FOR A RADICAL REIMAGINATION AND HOLISTIC RECLAMATION OF BEAUTY' DAZED
Disobedient Bodies (Ebook)
Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
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An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty
An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next
'A MUST-READ' PSYCHOLOGIES
'RADICAL, INCISIVE, THOUGHTFUL ... I CAN'T RECOMMEND ENOUGH' VICKY SPRATT
For too long, beauty has been entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism: objectification, shame, control, competition and consumerism. We need to find a way to do beauty differently.
This radical, deeply personal and empowering essay points to ways we can all embrace our unruly beauty and enjoy our magnificent, disobedient bodies.
It accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection, opening in October 2023.
'POWERFUL' THE i, Best New Books to Read in October 2023
'CALLS FOR A RADICAL REIMAGINATION AND HOLISTIC RECLAMATION OF BEAUTY' DAZED
Disobedient Bodies (Audiobook)
Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
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An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty
An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next
'A MUST-READ' PSYCHOLOGIES
'RADICAL, INCISIVE, THOUGHTFUL … I CAN'T RECOMMEND ENOUGH' VICKY SPRATT
For too long, beauty has been entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism: objectification, shame, control, competition and consumerism. We need to find a way to do beauty differently.
This radical, deeply personal and empowering essay points to ways we can all embrace our unruly beauty and enjoy our magnificent, disobedient bodies.
It accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection, opening in October 2023.
'POWERFUL' THE i, Best New Books to Read in October 2023
'CALLS FOR A RADICAL REIMAGINATION AND HOLISTIC RECLAMATION OF BEAUTY' DAZED
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Emma Dabiri
Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic,
author and broadcaster. She spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS. She is a final year Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next and Don't Touch My Hair. In 2023 she was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentaries Journeys into Afro-futurism and Britain's Lost Masterpieces, as well as BBC 2's Back in Time for Brixton and the Cannes Silver Lion award-winning Hair Power for Channel 4. She is a Contributing Editor at Elle and runs the Instagram account, Disobedient Bodies.