Carl Bergstrom and Bill Hanage in PNAS today explain why
http://carlbergstrom.com/publications/pdfs/2023PNAS.pdf
When we were young, we were framed in a light directed from outside our inner energy. We sought to define ourselves to catch and refract that light, to be what the world wanted.
Now we frame our world from the light emanating from within our inner energy to define existence. It is our beauty when we control the inner light, or it becomes reframed into another's vision, beautiful or disfigured, when another seizes control of our light.
A Columbia University researcher has been documenting how beauty norms compel women of color to disproportionately use cosmetics. They face a higher threat from potentially harmful chemicals, like forever chemicals.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27082023/toxic-beauty-products-fossil-fuels-women-of-color/
In a way, when environmental researcher Ami Zota looks at data about patterns of cosmetics use by women of color in 2023, she’s gazing back in time. There were the fledgling days of the environmental justice movement in the 1980s, when activists began placing a name on the discriminatory ecological practices that adversely affect communities […]
My sister before hosting the Houston mayoral debate.
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