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Disgust and Fear: What I learnt from growing my body hair.

The beautiful thing about delving into a stigma is that it acts as a secret portal to which you can understand so much of the way our culture works. One of the most common reactions to a woman who decides not to shave is disgust. It is common for people to draw a comparison between hairy people and animals, which makes an assumption that being civilised is tied up with looking less animalistic.

5 Things to Think and Do to Counteract Those Covid Blues.

I’m writing this for those of you who are looking for jobs, who had to move back home, who feel pretty alone and frustrated, and have no idea what the future is going to bring. I write this as a fellow struggler of all the above, but also as an avid optimist. Quite frankly, the thought that everything has turned to scheisse makes me feel pretty ill, and therefore I have come up with ways to prevent this from becoming a regular feeling.

It’s Okay Not to Act Like a Feminist All the Time.

However, with this wealth of insight that we are now being presented with on how oppressions can manifest themselves in micro, day-to-day ways, I have seen first-hand how womxn can chastise themselves for not acting in a ‘feminist way’. I myself have experienced this with body hair. I wrote a whole dissertation about the stigma surrounding female body hair, I have an instagram account dedicated to reducing the stigma, and talk to my friends about it almost all the time. Yet, at times I do shave my legs.