Her newest undertaking has seen her develop into the writer of some of the vital books that I’ve learn in a very long time. Pixel Flesh is an trustworthy, scary and at instances surprising commentary 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 photographs than ever, we’ve got the flexibility to craft a model of ourselves that we wish everybody to see. We pinch, pull, squeeze, tweeze, easy 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 splendid and the hurt it’s doing to ladies all world wide. 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 just about and in individual is all-consuming.”
Throughout the episode we discover most of the themes in Ellen’s e-book and have a very trustworthy chat concerning the challenges that so many people face with regards to how we understand and current ourselves to the world. We additionally have a look at the empowering and constructive aspect of magnificence and the way when utilized in the precise means it could possibly construct communities and make us really feel increible.
I hope you get pleasure from this thought frightening episode and that it sparks a debate concerning the highs and lows of being a girl in 2024.
