Her newest venture has seen her turn into the writer of one of the vital essential books that I’ve learn in a very long time. Pixel Flesh is an trustworthy, scary and at instances surprising remark of the poisonous aspect of magnificence and the web 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 pictures than ever, we’ve got the power 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 really empowering? Are we actually in management?
In Pixel Flesh, Ellen Atlanta holds a mirror as much as our trendy magnificence preferrred and the hurt it’s doing to ladies all all over the world. 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 dwelling in a digitally obsessed world the place the strain to current your self each nearly and in particular person is all-consuming.”
Through the episode we discover lots of the themes in Ellen’s e book and have a very trustworthy chat concerning the challenges that so many people face on the subject of how we understand and current ourselves to the world. We additionally take a look at the empowering and optimistic aspect of magnificence and the way when utilized in the suitable means it might probably construct communities and make us really feel increible.
I hope you take pleasure in this thought scary episode and that it sparks a debate concerning the highs and lows of being a girl in 2024.