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I’m Meep: a 20something librarian, originally from New England, living in Tokyo. I eat books and bleed poetry.
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Mistletoe and Murder
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Over The Garden Wall: Tome of the Unknown
Brightwood
The Golden Compass and Philosophy: God Bites the Dust
The Crashers
All the Birds in the Sky
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
A Christmas Carol
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
This text is a modern feminist classic and it's easy to see why. Some of it was outdated (e.g., her shock at photoshopping) and I would have liked to see more analysis of queer and trans women's experiences of the beauty myth, but for something written when I was two years old? It's powerful, and it made me think about beautification in an entirely new way; conceptualizing the beauty myth as political and economic, not as sexual, was a huge revelation and has changed the way I think about images of oppressive beauty and the desire to live up to those expectations.
