Soft Power in a Hard Mirror
There’s a peculiar violence in the way we’ve been taught to approach our faces. We scrub, peel, extract, and “correct,” as though our pores are insurgents and our cheeks a disputed border. Advertisements whisper in the soothing tone of a hostage negotiator: “Surrender to youth.” And we do, nightly, armed with acids and serums that […]
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