Her newest undertaking has seen her turn into the writer of some of the vital books that I’ve learn in a very long time. Pixel Flesh is an sincere, scary and at instances stunning commentary of the poisonous facet 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, picture modifying apps, and publicity to extra pictures than ever, we’ve 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 supreme 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 residing in a digitally obsessed world the place the strain to current your self each just about 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 sincere chat in regards to the challenges that so many people face in the case 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 proper manner it could construct communities and make us really feel increible.
I hope you take pleasure in this thought frightening episode and that it sparks a debate in regards to the highs and lows of being a girl in 2024.