Her newest mission has seen her turn out to be the creator of one of the crucial essential books that I’ve learn in a very long time. Pixel Flesh is an trustworthy, scary and at instances surprising commentary of the poisonous facet of magnificence and the net world:
“We live in a brand new age of magnificence. With developments in beauty surgical procedure, augmented actuality face filters, photograph modifying apps, and publicity to extra photos than ever, we’ve the flexibility to craft a model of ourselves that we would like everybody to see. We pinch, pull, squeeze, tweeze, clean and slice ourselves past recognition. However is our magnificence tradition actually empowering? Are we actually in management?
In Pixel Flesh, Ellen Atlanta holds a mirror as much as our fashionable magnificence perfect and the hurt it’s doing to ladies all around the globe. Weaving in her personal private story with these of different ladies, she reconfigures our obsession with the cult of magnificence and explores the realities of residing in a digitally obsessed world the place the strain to current your self each just about and in individual is all-consuming.”
Throughout the episode we discover lots of the themes in Ellen’s guide and have a extremely trustworthy chat in regards to the challenges that so many people face on the subject of how we understand and current ourselves to the world. We additionally have a look at the empowering and constructive facet of magnificence and the way when utilized in the precise method it will probably construct communities and make us really feel increible.
I hope you get pleasure from this thought frightening episode and that it sparks a debate in regards to the highs and lows of being a lady in 2024.