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#9: Brown Girls Don't...Look Beautiful (feat. Sharan Dhaliwal)
Being brown is hard enough. Being beautiful, FEELING beautiful? Don’t even get @sharandhaliwal_ and I started.
That’s RIGHT: tune in to episode #9 as I’m joined by Sharan, editor-in-chief of @burntrotimag and author of the provocative, intricate, courageous book ‘Burning My Roti’ to discuss the word on everyone’s lips (literally): BEAUTY.
Let’s face it - we all strive for the ideal, and that ideal is usually Eurocentric and vastly unattainable. Between taming hairy bodies, rationing time in the sun, holding the ghee a lot more than we’d like to and aunties’ disapproving glances holding us to an endless quest for perfection, we’re screwed.
But WHY do we care so much about what we look like, and why is our worth in the community’s eyes defined by it too? What are the consequences of feeling the pressure to be beautiful from a young age, and how can you start to break free (impossible though it may sound)? Why aren’t brown girls thought to be beautiful, and have we truly made any progress towards diversified beauty standards?
Sharan and I cover all these deep questions AND more in this episode. You’ll wanna listen to this one, it’s a therapy sesh and a rant all in one and I for one am HERE FOR IT😌💅🏼✨.
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By Maansi KalyanBeing brown is hard enough. Being beautiful, FEELING beautiful? Don’t even get @sharandhaliwal_ and I started.
That’s RIGHT: tune in to episode #9 as I’m joined by Sharan, editor-in-chief of @burntrotimag and author of the provocative, intricate, courageous book ‘Burning My Roti’ to discuss the word on everyone’s lips (literally): BEAUTY.
Let’s face it - we all strive for the ideal, and that ideal is usually Eurocentric and vastly unattainable. Between taming hairy bodies, rationing time in the sun, holding the ghee a lot more than we’d like to and aunties’ disapproving glances holding us to an endless quest for perfection, we’re screwed.
But WHY do we care so much about what we look like, and why is our worth in the community’s eyes defined by it too? What are the consequences of feeling the pressure to be beautiful from a young age, and how can you start to break free (impossible though it may sound)? Why aren’t brown girls thought to be beautiful, and have we truly made any progress towards diversified beauty standards?
Sharan and I cover all these deep questions AND more in this episode. You’ll wanna listen to this one, it’s a therapy sesh and a rant all in one and I for one am HERE FOR IT😌💅🏼✨.