Overview

An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and commercially entangled, imposed upon us by oppressive systems and further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing. This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system. Offering alternative ways of seeing beauty, drawing on other cultures, worldviews, times, and places, as well as looking beyond the capitalist model - to reconnect with our birth right and find the inherent joy in our disobedient bodies. It accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection in autumn 2023.

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Author:   Emma Dabiri
Publisher:   Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:   Wellcome Collection
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 11.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.120kg
ISBN:  

9781800817920

ISBN 10:   1800817924
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   05 October 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Emma is once-in-a-generation clever -- Caitlin Moran Praise for What White People Can Do Next -- : Essential ... accessible and yet so full of scholarship. Witty, insightful, a must-read -- Owen Jones A game-changing skewering of social media discourse with a historically grounded analysis of anti-racism, collectivism, neoliberalism, and post-colonialism -- Jason Okundaye * Vogue * Praise for Don't Touch My Hair -- : Groundbreaking ... I would urge everyone to read it * Guardian * Groundbreaking ... scintillating -- Bernardine Evaristo * TLS * Fascinating, educational, personal, humble and engaging. I urge you all to read it! -- Marian Keyes

'Emma is once-in-a-generation clever' - Caitlin Moran Praise for What White People Can Do Next 'Essential ... accessible and yet so full of scholarship. Witty, insightful, a must-read' - Owen Jones 'A game-changing skewering of social media discourse with a historically grounded analysis of anti-racism, collectivism, neoliberalism, and post-colonialism' - Jason Okundaye

Game-changing -- Jason Okundaye * British Vogue * Emma is once-in-a-generation clever -- Caitlin Moran Praise for What White People Can Do Next -- : Essential ... accessible and yet so full of scholarship. Witty, insightful, a must-read -- Owen Jones Impactful . . . a manifesto for meaningful and lasting change. And trust us, once you've picked it up and started reading, you won't want to put it down * Cosmopolitan * Praise for Don't Touch My Hair -- : Groundbreaking ... I would urge everyone to read it * Guardian * Groundbreaking ... scintillating -- Bernardine Evaristo * TLS * Fascinating, educational, personal, humble and engaging. I urge you all to read it! -- Marian Keyes

Author Information

Emma Dabiri 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, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next and Don't Touch My Hair. 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' 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.

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