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Whenever your gut tells you something, listen.

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NCUTI GATWA in The Importance of Being Earnest

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you are allowed — no, in fact, supposed to — define beauty on your own terms. beauty has become such a loaded, weaponised, corrupted concept in order to control and disempower us. perhaps precisely because, when wielded with confidence, beauty holds so much power. and i’m not talking just about how you look but about the aesthetics of everything, the art of everyday. beauty defined on our own terms connects us directly with our human spirit, circumventing power structures (patriarchy, capitalism, racism, imperialism, etc) that try to dictate that for us. to control us. aesthetics play a massive role in our sense of self worth, and our sense of self worth plays a massive role in the trajectory and quality of our life. it matters greatly (so it is no wonder we are trained to believe, too, that it’s vapid or stupid). when i talk about finding beauty, training yourself to see it, pursuing it yourself… this is what i mean. forget about the “standards”, you must develop your own taste, your own conviction about what beauty means (it is different for all of us) as a type of creative pursuit, and invest your time, energy, and money into cultivating it. it’s not just for frivolity and pleasure — it truly does create power, and dilutes the power of pernicious power structures too. find the beauty everywhere, on your own terms. please.